{"id":97405,"date":"2019-10-14T02:02:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/quantum-state-of-single-electrons-controlled-by-surfing-on-sound-waves"},"modified":"2019-10-14T02:02:51","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T09:02:51","slug":"quantum-state-of-single-electrons-controlled-by-surfing-on-sound-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/quantum-state-of-single-electrons-controlled-by-surfing-on-sound-waves","title":{"rendered":"Quantum state of single electrons controlled by \u2018surfing\u2019 on sound waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-state-of-single-electrons-controlled-by-surfing-on-sound-waves.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have successfully used sound waves to control quantum information in a single electron, a significant step towards efficient, robust quantum computers made from semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>The international team, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, sent high-frequency <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sound+waves\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sound waves<\/a> across a modified <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/semiconductor+device\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">semiconductor device<\/a> to direct the behaviour of a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/single+electron\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">single electron<\/a>, with efficiencies in excess of 99 percent. The results are reported in the journal Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>A quantum computer would be able to solve previously unsolvable computational problems by taking advantage of the strange behaviour of particles at the subatomic scale, and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+phenomena\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum phenomena<\/a> such as entanglement and superposition. However, precisely controlling the behaviour of quantum particles is a mammoth task.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have successfully used sound waves to control quantum information in a single electron, a significant step towards efficient, robust quantum computers made from semiconductors. The international team, including researchers from the University of Cambridge, sent high-frequency sound waves across a modified semiconductor device to direct the behaviour of a single electron, with efficiencies in [\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-97405","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\/97405","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=97405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}