{"id":85589,"date":"2018-12-07T16:02:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/harnessing-the-power-of-spin-orbit-coupling-in-silicon-scaling-up-quantum-computation"},"modified":"2018-12-07T16:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T00:02:43","slug":"harnessing-the-power-of-spin-orbit-coupling-in-silicon-scaling-up-quantum-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/harnessing-the-power-of-spin-orbit-coupling-in-silicon-scaling-up-quantum-computation","title":{"rendered":"Harnessing the power of \u2018spin orbit\u2019 coupling in silicon: Scaling up quantum computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/harnessing-the-power-of-spin-orbit-coupling-in-silicon-scaling-up-quantum-computation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian scientists have investigated new directions to scale up qubits\u2014utilising the spin-orbit coupling of atom qubits\u2014adding a new suite of tools to the armory.<\/p>\n<p>Spin-orbit coupling, the coupling of the qubits\u2019 orbital and spin degree of freedom, allows the manipulation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/qubit\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">qubit<\/a> via electric, rather than magnetic-fields. Using the electric dipole coupling between qubits means they can be placed further apart, thereby providing flexibility in the chip fabrication process.<\/p>\n<p>In one of these approaches, published in <i>Science Advances<\/i>, a team of scientists led by UNSW Professor Sven Rogge investigated the spin-orbit coupling of a boron atom in silicon.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-12-harnessing-power-orbit-coupling-silicon.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;12-harnessing-power-orbit-coupling-silicon.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian scientists have investigated new directions to scale up qubits\u2014utilising the spin-orbit coupling of atom qubits\u2014adding a new suite of tools to the armory. Spin-orbit coupling, the coupling of the qubits\u2019 orbital and spin degree of freedom, allows the manipulation of the qubit via electric, rather than magnetic-fields. Using the electric dipole coupling between qubits [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85589","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=85589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}