{"id":2230,"date":"2017-02-01T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-02-25T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T08:27:53","slug":"february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/february-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueprint for a microwave trapped-ion quantum computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We unveil the first industrial blueprint on how to build a large-scale quantum computer. The work features a new invention permitting actual quantum bits to be transmitted between individual quantum computing modules in order to obtain a fully modular large-scale machine. The work is published in <a href=\"http:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/3\/2\/e1601540\">Science Advances<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/blueprint.pdf\">Manuscript: Blueprint for a microwave trapped-ion quantum computer<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/pressrelease\/id\/38953\">University of Sussex Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Selected media coverage:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PhhAGKmh71o\"><u>Sky News Tonight With Dermot Murnaghan<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ld1maCU9CTM&amp;feature=youtu.be\"><u>BBC One &#8211; South East Today<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b08byp9b\"><u>BBC Radio 4 Inside Science (go to 7.52)<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-38811255\"><u>BBC NEWS: Quantum computer &#8216;construction plan&#8217; drawn up<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/02\/01\/deep-thought-hitchhikers-guide-galaxy-dream-computer-realised\/\"><u>The Telegraph: &#8216;Deep Thought&#8217; &#8211; Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy dream computer &#8211; to be realised by British scientists<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/quantum-computers-quantum-physics-sussex-university-holy-grail-a7558036.html\"><u>The Independent: Quantum computing breakthrough could help &#8216;change life completely&#8217;, say scientists<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/344e548c-e87b-11e6-967b-c88452263daf\"><u>The Financial Times: Blueprint published for first ultra-powerful quantum computer<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/physicists-propose-football-pitch-sized-quantum-computer-1.21423\"><u>Nature: Physicists propose football-pitch-sized quantum computer<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-4181710\/Plans-quantum-computer-change-life.html\"><u>Daily Mail: Want to make a quantum computer? Researchers reveal blueprint for device they say could &#8216;change life completely&#8217;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/heres-how-to-build-the-first-large-scale-quantum-computer\"><u>VICE: Here\u2019s How to Build the First Large-Scale Quantum Computer<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Some background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-we-created-the-first-ever-blueprint-for-a-real-quantum-computer-72290\"><u>The Conversation: How we created the first ever blueprint for a real quantum computer by Winfried Hensinger<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-fusion-600 wp-image-2531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-600x330.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-200x110.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-400x220.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-600x330.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-800x440.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-1024x563.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-1200x659.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules-1536x844.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules.jpg 1807w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We unveil the first industrial blueprint on how to build [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/twomodules.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3240,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/3240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/physics\/iqt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}