{"id":74001,"date":"2017-11-29T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T05:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/scientists-demonstrate-one-of-largest-quantum-simulators"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:01:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T18:01:16","slug":"scientists-demonstrate-one-of-largest-quantum-simulators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/scientists-demonstrate-one-of-largest-quantum-simulators","title":{"rendered":"Scientists demonstrate one of largest quantum simulators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-demonstrate-one-of-largest-quantum-simulators2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper published today in the journal <i>Nature<\/i>, they report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s results represent one of the largest arrays of quantum bits, known as qubits, that scientists have been able to individually control. In the same issue of <i>Nature<\/i>, a team from the University of Maryland reports a similarly sized system using trapped ions as quantum bits.<\/p>\n<p>In the MIT-Harvard approach, the researchers generated a chain of 51 atoms and programmed them to undergo a quantum phase transition, in which every other atom in the chain was excited. The pattern resembles a state of magnetism known as an antiferromagnet, in which the spin of every other atom or molecule is aligned.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017-11-quantum-simulator-probe-material-properties.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2017&#45;11-quantum-simulator-probe-ma...rties.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at MIT and Harvard University have demonstrated a new way to manipulate quantum bits of matter. In a paper published today in the journal Nature, they report using a system of finely tuned lasers to first trap and then tweak the interactions of 51 individual atoms, or quantum bits. The team\u2019s results represent one [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74055,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74001\/revisions\/74055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}