{"id":142370,"date":"2025-08-13T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142370\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:31:10","slug":"chinese-scientists-build-largest-array-of-atoms-for-quantum-computing-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/142370\/","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=\"noopener\">Pan Jianwei<\/a> has built a key component for an atom-based quantum computer, raising hopes it could be scaled up to an array using tens of thousands of the 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 an atom-based quantum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":142371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[78199,745,14232,84672,84674,4588,2913,84671,158,67,132,84673,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-142370","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-harvard-university","11":"tag-pan-jianwei","12":"tag-physical-review-letters","13":"tag-quantum-computer","14":"tag-qubits","15":"tag-shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115021472413540111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}