{"id":592,"date":"2021-04-22T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T07:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?p=592"},"modified":"2025-05-14T09:18:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:18:44","slug":"making-mechanical-qubits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?p=592","title":{"rendered":"Making mechanical qubits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/yasmine-sfendla\">Yasmine Sfendla<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/chris-baker\">Chris Baker<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/dr-glen-harris\">Glen Harris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/raymond-harrison\">Ray Harrison<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/equs.org\/users\/prof-warwick-bowen\">Warwick Bowen<\/a> and collaborating professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucmerced.edu\/content\/lin-tian\">Lin Tian<\/a> from UC Merced have set a step towards developing the elusive all-mechanical qubit. All you need is some superfluid and a slab of silicon! Get the recipe at <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41534-021-00393-3\">npj Quantum Information<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41534-021-00393-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-5.03.15-pm-1024x297.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-5.03.15-pm-1024x297.png 1024w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-5.03.15-pm-300x87.png 300w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-5.03.15-pm-768x223.png 768w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-22-at-5.03.15-pm.png 1478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/phononic_crystal-e1619080822540.png\" alt=\"Computer-simulated image of a thin film of fluid covering a periodically perforated slab. In the middle, a hole is missing. There, the fluid is moving up and down like water in a pond.\" class=\"wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/phononic_crystal-e1619080822540.png 975w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/phononic_crystal-e1619080822540-300x96.png 300w, https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/phononic_crystal-e1619080822540-768x246.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><figcaption><em>Superfluid wave trapped in a phononic crystal (or &#8220;acoustic metamaterial&#8221;)<\/em>. <br>From:  Sfendla, Yasmine L., <em>et al.<\/em>&nbsp;Extreme quantum nonlinearity in superfluid thin-film surface waves.&nbsp;<em>npj Quantum Inf<\/em>&nbsp;<strong>7,&nbsp;<\/strong>62 (2021)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yasmine Sfendla, Chris Baker, Glen Harris, Ray Harrison, Warwick Bowen and collaborating professor Lin Tian from UC Merced have set a step towards developing the elusive all-mechanical qubit. All you need is some superfluid and a slab of silicon! Get the recipe at npj Quantum Information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive-2021"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/?author=4"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=592"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592\/revisions\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qo.lab.uq.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}