{"id":41579,"date":"2025-04-22T16:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41579\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:54:10","slug":"quantum-batteries-could-make-quantum-computers-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/41579\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum batteries could make quantum computers more efficient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_247646109.jpg\"   loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2477512\" data-caption=\"Quantum batteries have theoretically exciting properties\" data-credit=\"da-kuk\/Getty Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Quantum batteries have theoretically exciting properties<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">da-kuk\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Hooking up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/question\/what-is-a-quantum-computer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">quantum computer<\/a> to a quantum battery could make it much more energy-efficient and enable machines to pack more processing power into the same physical space.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25534030-800-quantum-batteries-strange-technology-that-could-provide-instant-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quantum batteries<\/a>, like regular batteries, can store energy to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2453767-quantum-batteries-could-give-off-more-energy-than-they-store\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provide power<\/a>, but rather than using electrochemical reactions, they are built from quantum bits, or qubits, that can extract energy from quantum processes, like entanglement. While they have the advantage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2429915-being-in-two-places-at-once-could-make-a-quantum-battery-charge-faster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">charging much faster<\/a> than regular devices, researchers have struggled to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2467910-quantum-batteries-charge-faster-the-larger-they-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">build working examples<\/a> or find practical uses for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quantum batteries have theoretically exciting properties da-kuk\/Getty Images Hooking up a quantum computer to a quantum battery could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[3284,3358,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-41579","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-quantum-computing","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114382665614893367","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}