{"id":91216,"date":"2019-05-23T10:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2019-05-23T10:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T17:42:21","slug":"the-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/the-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"The geometry of an electron determined for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-geometry-of-an-electron-determined-for-the-first-time3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at the University of Basel have shown for the first time how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. A newly developed method enables them to show the probability of an electron being present in a space. This allows improved control of electron spins, which could serve as the smallest information unit in a future quantum computer. The experiments were published in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i> and the related theory in Physical Review B.<\/p>\n<p>The spin of an electron is a promising candidate for use as the smallest information unit (qubit) of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> computer. Controlling and switching this spin or coupling it with other spins is a challenge on which numerous research groups worldwide are working. The stability of a single spin and the entanglement of various spins depends, among other things, on the geometry of the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/electrons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electrons<\/a>\u2014which previously had been impossible to determine experimentally.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-05-geometry-electron.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists at the University of Basel have shown for the first time how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. A newly developed method enables them to show the probability of an electron being present in a space. This allows improved control of electron spins, which could serve as the smallest information unit in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91216","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\/91216","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}