{"id":74257,"date":"2017-12-08T01:44:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/physicists-just-invented-an-essential-component-needed-for-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2017-12-11T18:01:27","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T02:01:27","slug":"physicists-just-invented-an-essential-component-needed-for-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/physicists-just-invented-an-essential-component-needed-for-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Just Invented an Essential Component Needed For Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-just-invented-an-essential-component-needed-for-quantum-computers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/odd-states-of-matter-how-three-british-theorists-scooped-the-2016-nobel-prize-for-physics?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1\">went to three British scientists<\/a> for their work on superconductors and superfluids, which included the explanation of a rather odd phase of matter.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, their discovery has a practical application \u2013 shrinking an electrical component to a size that will help quantum computers reach a scale that just might make them useful.<\/p>\n<p>In a collaboration with Stanford University in the US, a team of scientists from the University of Sydney and Microsoft have used the newly found phase of matter \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/iop.fnwi.uva.nl\/cmp\/TI.html\">topological insulator<\/a> \u2014 in shrinking an electrical component called a circulator 1,000 times smaller.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/topological-insulator-application-quantum-computer-circulators\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/topological-insulator-applicatio...irculators<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to three British scientists for their work on superconductors and superfluids, which included the explanation of a rather odd phase of matter. Now, for the first time, their discovery has a practical application \u2013 shrinking an electrical component to a size that will help quantum computers reach [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74257","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74399,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74257\/revisions\/74399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}