{"id":3925736,"date":"2026-04-30T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/quantum-computings-next-dark-horse-emerges-from-a-frozen-surface-where-almost-nothing-behaves-as-expected\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:05:12","slug":"quantum-computings-next-dark-horse-emerges-from-a-frozen-surface-where-almost-nothing-behaves-as-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/quantum-computings-next-dark-horse-emerges-from-a-frozen-surface-where-almost-nothing-behaves-as-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum computing&#8217;s next dark horse emerges from a frozen surface, where almost nothing behaves as expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Quantum bits (qubits) are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. A novel qubit platform invented at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory exhibits noise levels thousands of times lower than those of most traditional qubits. &#8220;Noise&#8221; refers to disturbances in the environment that diminish a qubit&#8217;s performance. The platform was built by trapping single electrons on the surface of frozen neon gas. The recent finding positions Argonne&#8217;s platform as a strong contender in the field of high-performance quantum technologies.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-04-quantum-dark-horse-emerges-frozen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum bits (qubits) are the fundamental building blocks of quantum information processing. A novel qubit platform invented at the U.S. Department of Energy&#8217;s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory exhibits noise levels thousands of times lower than those of most traditional qubits. &#8220;Noise&#8221; refers to disturbances in the environment that diminish a qubit&#8217;s performance. The platform was [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3925736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-in-physics","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}