{"id":83107,"date":"2018-09-27T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/superconducting-metamaterial-traps-quantum-light"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T16:23:52","slug":"superconducting-metamaterial-traps-quantum-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/superconducting-metamaterial-traps-quantum-light","title":{"rendered":"Superconducting metamaterial traps quantum light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconducting-metamaterial-traps-quantum-light.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conventional computers store information in a bit, a fundamental unit of logic that can take a value of 0 or 1. Quantum computers rely on quantum bits, also known as a \u201cqubits,\u201d as their fundamental building blocks. Bits in traditional computers encode a single value, either a 0 or a 1. The state of a qubit, by contrast, can simultaneously have a value of both 0 and 1. This peculiar property, a consequence of the fundamental laws of quantum physics, results in the dramatic complexity in quantum systems.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum computing is a nascent and rapidly developing field that promises to use this complexity to solve problems that are difficult to tackle with conventional computers. A key challenge for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> computing, however, is that it requires making large numbers of qubits work together\u2014which is difficult to accomplish while avoiding interactions with the outside environment that would rob the qubits of their quantum properties.<\/p>\n<p>New research from the lab of Oskar Painter, John G Braun Professor of Applied Physics and Physics in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, explores the use of superconducting metamaterials to overcome this challenge.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-superconducting-metamaterial-quantum.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-superconducting-metamaterial-quantum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conventional computers store information in a bit, a fundamental unit of logic that can take a value of 0 or 1. Quantum computers rely on quantum bits, also known as a \u201cqubits,\u201d as their fundamental building blocks. Bits in traditional computers encode a single value, either a 0 or a 1. The state of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}