{"id":35919,"date":"2025-09-22T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35919\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T07:09:08","slug":"simon-fraser-university-sfu-physicists-create-new-electrically-controlled-silicon-based-quantum-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/35919\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Fraser University &#8211; SFU physicists create new electrically controlled silicon-based quantum device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive_news\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/id_news_0_20250918010930_68cc46def1ef0.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Developing quantum technology using silicon provides opportunities to rapidly scale quantum computing. The global semiconductor industry is already able to inexpensively manufacture silicon computer chips at scale, with a staggering degree of precision. This technology forms the backbone of modern computing and networking, from smartphones to the world&#8217;s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our colleagues Stephanie Simmons and Mike Thewalt first proposed silicon colour centres as a platform for quantum computing at a time when very few people were thinking about them at all,&#8221; says Higginbottom.<\/p>\n<p>Now, national governments, including Canada through its National Quantum Strategy, major universities and corporations like IBM, Google and Microsoft are spending billions of dollars in a scramble to be first out of the gate with a scalable quantum computer.<\/p>\n<p>Higginbottom says being at the forefront of the field has been a thrilling experience.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It fits into this trajectory that we&#8217;ve been on. In 2020, SFU first introduced silicon T centers for quantum applications. In 2022, we integrated Single T centers with patterned nanophotonic devices,&#8221; he says. &#8220;But those devices didn&#8217;t have any interfaces or controls. Now we&#8217;re controlling them optically and electronically. We&#8217;re unlocking some of the capabilities that you need to build a useful computer out of these things.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Developing quantum technology using silicon provides opportunities to rapidly scale quantum computing. The global semiconductor industry is already&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[241,61,60,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-35919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}