{"id":158103,"date":"2025-11-28T14:19:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/158103\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T14:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T14:19:07","slug":"chinese-scientists-create-super-stable-building-block-for-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/158103\/","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":158104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[104456,104453,104460,2061,111,139,104463,69,104452,393,104454,6901,13950,8756,104461,7838,104462,147,104455,44806,104457,104458,104459],"class_list":["post-158103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-physics","tag-chinese-physicist-pan-jianwei","tag-father-of-quantum","tag-micius-salon","tag-nature","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-non-equilibrium-higher-order-topological-phases","tag-nz","tag-pan-jianwei","tag-physics","tag-qua","tag-quantum","tag-quantum-computers","tag-quantum-information","tag-quantum-lego-block","tag-qubits","tag-royal-swedish-academy-of-sciences","tag-science","tag-shanxi-university","tag-superconductors","tag-topology","tag-university-of-science-and-technology-of-china-ustc","tag-zuchongzhi-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}