{"id":88067,"date":"2019-02-21T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T03:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/physicists-get-thousands-of-semiconductor-nuclei-to-do-quantum-dances-in-unison"},"modified":"2019-02-21T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T03:02:22","slug":"physicists-get-thousands-of-semiconductor-nuclei-to-do-quantum-dances-in-unison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/physicists-get-thousands-of-semiconductor-nuclei-to-do-quantum-dances-in-unison","title":{"rendered":"Physicists get thousands of semiconductor nuclei to do \u2018quantum dances\u2019 in unison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-get-thousands-of-semiconductor-nuclei-to-do-quantum-dances-in-unison2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum dots are crystals made up of thousands of atoms, and each of these atoms interacts magnetically with the trapped electron. If left alone to its own devices, this interaction of the electron with the nuclear spins, limits the usefulness of the electron as a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> bit\u2014a qubit.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Professor Mete Atat\u00fcre, a Fellow at St John\u2019s College, University of Cambridge, the research group, located at the Cavendish Laboratory, exploit the laws of quantum physics and optics to investigate computing, sensing or communication applications.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-02-physicists-thousands-semiconductor-nuclei-quantum.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019&#45;02-physicists-thousands-semic...antum.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of Cambridge researchers have found a way to control the sea of nuclei in semiconductor quantum dots so they can operate as a quantum memory device. Quantum dots are crystals made up of thousands of atoms, and each of these atoms interacts magnetically with the trapped electron. If left alone to its own [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88067","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\/88067","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=88067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}