{"id":92435,"date":"2019-06-21T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-demonstrate-new-path-to-reliable-quantum-computation"},"modified":"2019-06-21T05:42:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T12:42:47","slug":"researchers-demonstrate-new-path-to-reliable-quantum-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/researchers-demonstrate-new-path-to-reliable-quantum-computation","title":{"rendered":"Researchers demonstrate new path to reliable quantum computation"},"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\/lhqUJ3oeMFc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Chicago published a novel technique for improving the reliability of quantum computers by accessing higher energy levels than traditionally considered. Most prior work in quantum computation deals with \u201cqubits,\u201d the quantum analogue of binary bits that encode either zero or one. The new work instead leverages \u201cqutrits,\u201d quantum analogues of three-level trits capable of representing zero, one or two.<\/p>\n<p>The UChicago group worked alongside researchers based at Duke University. Both groups are part of the EPiQC (Enabling Practical-scale Quantum Computation) collaboration, an NSF Expedition in Computing. EPiQC\u2019s interdisciplinary research spans from algorithm and software development to architecture and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/hardware\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">hardware<\/a> design, with the ultimate goal of more quickly realizing the enormous potential of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum<\/a> computing for scientific discovery and computing innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the University of Chicago published a novel technique for improving the reliability of quantum computers by accessing higher energy levels than traditionally considered. Most prior work in quantum computation deals with \u201cqubits,\u201d the quantum analogue of binary bits that encode either zero or one. The new work instead leverages \u201cqutrits,\u201d quantum analogues of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92435","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=92435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}