<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">"Quantum computers only are useful to us when we know how the states of electrons relate to each other.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">But getting to a state where this relationship is known — “quantum coherence” — is extremely difficult and costly. That may soon change thanks to a new discovery.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">A team of scientists at the University of Chicago have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system “coherent” (or: operational) 10,000 times longer than before, according to a <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/12/science.abc5186" class="gmail-underline gmail-hover:text-futurism gmail-hover:no-underline gmail-transition-all gmail-duration-200 ease-in-out" style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);background-color:transparent;color:inherit;text-decoration-color:blue">new study</a> published in the journal <em style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236)">Science</em> on Thursday.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px">The scientists claim their solution could be applied to any other kind of quantum system and could end up revolutionizing the field."</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;border:0px solid rgb(236,236,236);margin-right:0px;margin-left:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Bitter,Georgia,Cambria,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18px"><a href="https://futurism.com/quantum-computer-system-operational">https://futurism.com/quantum-computer-system-operational</a><br></p></div>