{"id":94872,"date":"2019-08-16T19:42:27","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/newfound-superconductor-material-could-be-the-silicon-of-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2019-08-16T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T02:42:27","slug":"newfound-superconductor-material-could-be-the-silicon-of-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/newfound-superconductor-material-could-be-the-silicon-of-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Newfound Superconductor Material Could Be the \u2018Silicon of Quantum Computers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/newfound-superconductor-material-could-be-the-silicon-of-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists have found a superconductor that could sidestep one of the primary obstacles standing in the way of effective quantum logic circuits.<\/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\/uPw9nkJAwDY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Newly discovered properties in the compound uranium ditelluride, or UTe<sub>2<\/sub>, show that it could prove highly resistant to one of the nemeses of quantum computer development \u2014 the difficulty with making such a computer\u2019s memory storage switches, called qubits, function long enough to finish a computation before losing the delicate physical relationship that allows them to operate as a group. This relationship, called quantum coherence, is hard to maintain because of disturbances from the surrounding world.<\/p>\n<p>The compound\u2019s unusual and strong resistance to magnetic fields makes it a rare bird among superconducting (SC) materials, which offer distinct advantages for qubit design, chiefly their resistance to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uPw9nkJAwDY&feature=youtu.be&t=359\">the errors that can easily creep into quantum computation<\/a>. UTe<sub>2<\/sub>\u2019s exceptional behaviors could make it attractive to the nascent quantum computer industry, according to the research team\u2019s Nick Butch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A potentially useful material for building quantum computers has been unearthed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose scientists have found a superconductor that could sidestep one of the primary obstacles standing in the way of effective quantum logic circuits. Newly discovered properties in the compound uranium ditelluride, or UTe2, show that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94872","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=94872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}