{"id":78568,"date":"2018-05-10T07:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/light-could-make-semiconductor-computers-a-million-times-faster-or-even-go-quantum"},"modified":"2018-05-10T07:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:22:50","slug":"light-could-make-semiconductor-computers-a-million-times-faster-or-even-go-quantum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/light-could-make-semiconductor-computers-a-million-times-faster-or-even-go-quantum","title":{"rendered":"Light could make semiconductor computers a million times faster or even go quantum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XZLzAWu6kUw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A technique to manipulate electrons with light could bring quantum computing up to room temperature.<\/p>\n<p>A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/infrared+laser+pulses\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">infrared laser pulses<\/a> can shift electrons between two different <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/states\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">states<\/a>, the classic 1 and 0, in a thin sheet of semiconductor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrdinary electronics are in the range of gigahertz, one billion operations per second. This method is a million times faster,\u201d said Mackillo Kira, U-M professor of electrical engineering and computer science.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-semiconductor-million-faster-quantum.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-semiconductor-million-faster-quantum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A technique to manipulate electrons with light could bring quantum computing up to room temperature. A team of researchers in Germany and at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how infrared laser pulses can shift electrons between two different states, the classic 1 and 0, in a thin sheet of semiconductor. \u201cOrdinary electronics are in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78568","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\/78568","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\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}