{"id":10897,"date":"2021-04-20T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=10897"},"modified":"2021-04-20T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T12:55:32","slug":"materials-advancements-vital-development-quantum-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/materials-advancements-vital-development-quantum-hardware\/10897\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials advancements are vital to the development of quantum hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"
The research was conducted by an international team that analysed the current state of research on quantum computing hardware, with the objective of highlighting the difficulties and opportunities facing scientists and engineers.<\/p>\n
While conventional computers encode \u2018bits\u2019 of information as either 1 or 0, quantum computers create \u2018qubits\u2019 of continuous qualities, thus meaning the potential of quantum computers far surpasses the abilities of conventional computers. To reach the \u2018quantum advantage\u2019 point, sophisticated control of the underlying materials is necessary.<\/p>\n
“There has been an explosion in developing quantum technologies over the last 20 years,” commented Nathalie de Leon, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University<\/a> and the lead author of the paper, “culminating in current efforts to show quantum advantage for a variety of tasks, from computing and simulation to networking and sensing.\u201d<\/p>\n In the past, most work has been targeted to demonstrate proof-of-principle quantum devices and processors, de Leon said, but now the field is poised to address real-world challenges.<\/p>\n “Just as classical computing hardware became an enormous field in materials science and engineering in the last century, I think the quantum technologies field is now ripe for a new approach, where materials scientists, chemists, device engineers and other scientists and engineers can productively bring their expertise to bear on the problem.”<\/p>\n The paper is a call to scientists who study materials to turn to the challenge of developing hardware for quantum computing, said Hanhee Paik, corresponding author and a research staff member at IBM Quantum.<\/p>\n