{"id":15280,"date":"2025-08-22T03:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15280\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T03:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T03:08:21","slug":"chinese-scientists-build-largest-array-of-atoms-for-quantum-computing-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/15280\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists build largest array of atoms for quantum computing in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by renowned Chinese physicist <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3263118\/chinas-top-quantum-physicist-pan-jianwei-named-royal-society-fellow-days-after-us-sanctions-target?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pan Jianwei<\/a> has built a key component for a quantum computer \u2014 an atom-arranging setup capable of creating arrays 10 times larger than previous systems \u2014 that raised hopes it could one day be scaled to tens of thousands of these tiny building blocks.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The approach taken by Pan and his team from the University of Science and Technology of China overcomes a major hurdle to atom-based quantum computing, according to a paper published last week in the peer-reviewed Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The researchers designed an artificial intelligence system capable of arranging more than 2,000 rubidium atoms \u2013 each serving as a qubit, the two-state basic unit of quantum computing \u2013 into perfect patterns in a mere 60,000th of a second, it said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The milestone array was hailed by the paper\u2019s reviewers as \u201ca significant leap forward in computational efficiency and experimental feasibility within atom-related quantum physics\u201d, according to a press release on the university\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Three main ways to build a quantum computer have emerged since the concept was first envisioned in the 1980s, with the atom-based approach considered especially promising.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unlike the alternatives, which use superconducting circuits or trapped ions as qubits, neutral atoms are more stable and easier to control in large numbers. However, atom-based systems have so far been limited to arrays of just a few hundred.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In an atom-based quantum computer, the atoms are held in place by focused laser beams called optical tweezers, which manipulate their energy levels and link them to perform calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A team led by renowned Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei has built a key component for a quantum computer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[7412,314,18,242,19,17,13860,13862,6448,13324,13859,82,13861],"class_list":{"0":"post-15280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-ai-system","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-harvard-university","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-pan-jianwei","15":"tag-physical-review-letters","16":"tag-quantum-computer","17":"tag-qubits","18":"tag-shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}