Scientists have discovered a new topological superconductor

An international team of scientists made up of engineers from Switzerland, Great Britain and China issued a statement that they had succeeded find a new topological superconductor, which in the future will make it possible to create even more powerful and perfect quantum computers. Scientists have shared the results of the work done on the pages of the journal Nature Communications.

Superconductors and quantum computers of the future

As you know, superconductors can conduct electricity without resistance when cooled to a certain state. Compared to ordinary objects, superconductors exhibit their quantum properties, which makes them quite promising for use in quantum computers that use the properties of quantum physics to process and store huge amounts of data.

It is for this reason that the largest and most advanced IT companies are constantly working on the development of industrial quantum computers that will use superconductors.

At this moment "Achilles' heel" of modern quantum computers are qubits

So the engineers believe that it is possible to cope with such increased sensitivity only by creating stable qubits using special topological conductors, which will give the required protective properties.

Scientists have already obtained materials such as semiconductors bismuth-selenium and bismuth-tellurium. But in order to fully realize quantum devices, it is necessary that topological materials with superconducting properties be realized in the bulk, and not only on surfaces.

Numerous experiments and their results

In the course of numerous experiments, an international group of scientists managed to discover a new topological superconductor LaPt3P.

As the doctor stated Sudipa Kumara Ghosh, opening LaPt3P has enormous potential in the context of quantum computing. And his discovery suggests that further studies of muons are of great importance in general.

In order to determine that the properties of an open material do not depend on the characteristics of a particular device, at the University of Warwick in the UK and at the Swiss Higher Technical School of Zurich independently from each other created a pair of sets of samples, muon experiments with these were performed on devices of different designs:

1. At a pulsed source of neutrons and muons at the Rutherford-Appleton laboratory (Great Britain).
2. In the laboratory of muon spin spectroscopy (Switzerland).

Subsequent conclusions of scientists have been fully confirmed. Well, it looks like humanity has become closer to creating fully functional quantum computers for one more step and, it is quite possible that in a few decades, almost every house will have its own quantum computer.

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