{"id":6631,"date":"2012-09-20T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2012-09-20T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:27:04","slug":"australian-researchers-create-worlds-first-working-quantum-bit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6631","title":{"rendered":"Australian researchers create world\u2019s first working quantum bit"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This enabled them to form a quantum bit or \u201c<strong>qubit<\/strong>\u201d, the basic unit of data for quantum computers, which promise to solve complex problems \u201cthat are currently impossible on even the world\u2019s largest supercomputers,\u201d according to team leader Dr Andrea Morello.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cio.com.au\/article\/436933\/australian_researchers_create_world_first_working_quantum_bit\/\">Australian researchers create world\u2019s first working quantum bit &#8211; Professor Andrew Dzurak, Dr Andrea Morello, university of new south wales, quantum bit, quantum computing &#8211; CIO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The paper\u2019s lead author, UNSW PhD student Jarryd Pla, said researchers had been able to \u201cisolate, measure and control an electron belonging to a single atom, all using a device that was made in a very similar way to everyday silicon computer chips.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This enabled them to form a quantum bit or \u201cqubit\u201d, the basic unit of data for quantum computers, which promise to solve complex problems \u201cthat are currently impossible on even the world\u2019s largest supercomputers,\u201d according to team leader Dr Andrea &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=6631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[506,804],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-quantum-computing","tag-qubits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6633,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}