{"id":599387,"date":"2025-11-28T14:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599387\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:45:15","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-super-stable-building-block-for-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/599387\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists create super stable building block for quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei<\/a> and his team have created a \u201cquantum Lego block\u201d that refuses to fall apart \u2013 even when shaken.Using a programmable quantum processor named Zuchongzhi 2<\/a>, Pan\u2019s team has simulated an exotic new state of matter where quantum effects are locked into the corners of a material, according to a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Science on Friday. These corner states are protected by the deep laws of topology \u2013 a kind of quantum armour against errors and noise.<\/p>\n

This achievement marks the first experimental realisation of what scientists call non-equilibrium higher-order topological phases. These offer a new way to store quantum information that does not easily break down, which has been a major challenge for quantum computers.<\/p>\n

Pan, a professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) was once called the \u201cfather of quantum\u201d<\/a> by the journal Nature. He is now taking one of the boldest steps yet in the tech race against the US towards building practical, fault-tolerant quantum computers.<\/p>\n

In the paper, Pan, along with other researchers from USTC and Shanxi University, showed a way to simulate and detect the strange and extremely complex matter states with super stable corners or hinges instead of surfaces or edges.<\/p>\n

This new kind of matter, which does not exist in nature, could allow for quantum computers to operate correctly even in the presence of errors or noise, which is a current limitation on machine complexity owing to the sensitivity of quantum bits \u2013 the fundamental units of quantum information, also known as qubits \u2013 to their environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei and his team have created a \u201cquantum Lego block\u201d that refuses to fall apart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3845],"tags":[188176,188173,188180,729,188183,121524,74,188174,3591,3775,7030,188181,15109,188182,70,188175,46053,188177,16,15,188178,188179],"class_list":{"0":"post-599387","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-chinese-physicist-pan-jianwei","9":"tag-father-of-quantum","10":"tag-micius-salon","11":"tag-nature","12":"tag-non-equilibrium-higher-order-topological-phases","13":"tag-pan-jianwei","14":"tag-physics","15":"tag-qua","16":"tag-quantum","17":"tag-quantum-computers","18":"tag-quantum-information","19":"tag-quantum-lego-block","20":"tag-qubits","21":"tag-royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences","22":"tag-science","23":"tag-shanxi-university","24":"tag-superconductors","25":"tag-topology","26":"tag-uk","27":"tag-united-kingdom","28":"tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china-ustc","29":"tag-zuchongzhi-2"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115627866512089419","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599387","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=599387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}