{"id":153984,"date":"2026-07-01T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//?p=153984"},"modified":"2026-07-01T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:40:11","slug":"using-mechanical-vibrations-to-stabilize-quantum-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//using-mechanical-vibrations-to-stabilize-quantum-information/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//","title":{"rendered":"Using Mechanical Vibrations to Stabilize Quantum Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantum computers&nbsp;could&nbsp;one day solve problems beyond the reach of even the world/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2019s most powerful supercomputers, accelerating everything from drug discovery to the development of advanced materials and cleaner energy technologies.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>But the fragile quantum states that&nbsp;make&nbsp;such machines possible are notoriously easy to disrupt.&nbsp;Even tiny changes in the environment&nbsp;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2014&nbsp;such as stray radio waves, small fluctuations in temperature or slight physical vibrations&nbsp;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2014&nbsp;can&nbsp;interfere with&nbsp;calculations, introduce&nbsp;errors&nbsp;and disrupt quantum coherence.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>To help address this challenge,&nbsp;Assistant Professor of <a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//sciences.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//physics/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/">Physics</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//a>&nbsp;<a href=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//sciences.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//physics/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//person/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//han-zhao/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/">Han Zhao</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//a> is developing&nbsp;a new approach&nbsp;that combines superconducting quantum systems with nanomechanical devices to make quantum operations&nbsp;more&nbsp;resistant&nbsp;to&nbsp;noise and&nbsp;errors.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<h2>Supporting New Quantum Research</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cThe future of quantum computing will be its real-world&nbsp;breakthrough&nbsp;applications in science and the economy,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d&nbsp;Zhao says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cSo&nbsp;it is absolutely true that practical quantum computers need to address the fragility of quantum states./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<figure id=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"attachment_153991/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" style=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"max-width: 1181px;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"figure/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"><noscript><img decoding=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"async/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" width=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"1181/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/">Han Zhao (center) reviews experimental data with graduate students as they test a topological /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cbraiding/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d approach to make quantum operations more resistant to noise. (Photo by Antoine Hart)</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>The project&nbsp;is&nbsp;supported&nbsp;through the&nbsp;highly&nbsp;competitive&nbsp;Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award program, which provides seed funding to early-career faculty conducting research in science and engineering. The funding&nbsp;supports&nbsp;graduate student research and the acquisition of specialized superconducting quantum hardware used in the experiments. The project will also&nbsp;leverage&nbsp;166su/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2019s nanofabrication facilities and quantum research infrastructure, including advanced waveform control systems and superconducting quantum hardware.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cThe most inspiring aspect of receiving the award for me is to know that the scientific merit of the proposed research received extremely positive recognition in the community,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d Zhao says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cThis means our lab is on the right track to&nbsp;accomplish&nbsp;research of high importance. We are also grateful for the support of getting students involved in advanced experimental quantum research./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<h2>Entangling Quantum States Through Braids</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<blockquote><p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cNow, imagine the strands as the evolution of the quantum excitations and the knots as the entangled quantum states. The process of achieving a certain quantum state, i.e., the knot, can have various wiggles due to noise and control imperfection, but as long as it follows a certain pattern, it will result in a high-fidelity quantum operation.&#8221;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2014Han Zhao, assistant professor of physics</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//blockquote>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>There are&nbsp;generally two&nbsp;approaches to mitigate error rates in quantum computing, Zhao says. The first is&nbsp;quantum error correction (QEC), which uses multiple physical qubits&nbsp;(the basic unit of quantum information)&nbsp;to&nbsp;protect&nbsp;logical qubits, the&nbsp;encoded&nbsp;units&nbsp;of&nbsp;quantum&nbsp;information used for&nbsp;computation. However, QEC&nbsp;requires&nbsp;substantial hardware resources.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>Zhao/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2019s research explores an alternative approach that seeks to make quantum operations themselves more resistant to noise and errors. His efforts focus on developing a more fault-tolerant method for quantum entanglement using superconducting quantum systems and nanomechanical devices operating at temperatures near absolute zero.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>At the center of the project are tiny mechanical resonators&nbsp;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2014&nbsp;microscopic vibrating structures capable of interacting with microwave signals inside superconducting quantum circuits. By carefully controlling these interactions, Zhao aims to create a topological /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cbraiding/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d process in which quantum states cyclically exchange&nbsp;properties&nbsp;in a predictable and stable way.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>Unlike&nbsp;conventional&nbsp;quantum operations that rely on extremely precise control sequences, the braiding process is designed to be inherently more resistant to environmental noise and small operational errors. Because the&nbsp;process depends more on the overall&nbsp;pattern of the interaction rather than every exact microscopic detail, the approach could help reduce the impact of noise and small hardware imperfections.&nbsp;Zhao compares the process to tying a shoelace.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cBraiding means winding multiple strands to form or undo knots,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d Zhao says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cThe formation of a knot, like&nbsp;how you tie a&nbsp;shoelace, does not need to be exact every time and can tolerate large wiggle room for the strands to deviate./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cNow, imagine&nbsp;the strands&nbsp;as the evolution of the quantum excitations and the knots as the entangled quantum states,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d he continues.&nbsp;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cThe process of achieving a certain&nbsp;quantum state, i.e., the knot, can have various wiggles&nbsp;due to noise and control imperfection,&nbsp;but&nbsp;as long as&nbsp;it&nbsp;follows a certain pattern, it&nbsp;will result in a high-fidelity quantum operation. And this certain pattern is dictated by the intrinsic topology of the engineered interaction between superconducting quantum circuits and the mechanical resonators in an open quantum system./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<h2>A Stable Quantum State at Absolute Zero</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//h2>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>To perform these experiments, Zhao/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2019s lab uses superconducting quantum systems inside a specialized dilution refrigerator.&nbsp;Operating at these extreme temperatures helps&nbsp;eliminate&nbsp;thermal noise that would otherwise disrupt delicate quantum behavior. The refrigerator, which cools the system to just a fraction of a degree above absolute zero, creates the ultra-stable environment needed for superconducting circuits and quantum mechanical interactions to function reliably.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<figure id=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"attachment_153996/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" style=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"max-width: 1200px;/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"figure/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"><noscript><img decoding=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"async/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" width=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"1200/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" height=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"800/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"figure-img size-full wp-image-153996 img-fluid/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/" 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class=/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/"figure-caption/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/">Han Zhao checks instrument controls and reviews control sequences on a laptop during setup of experiments funded by the Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award. (Photo by Antoine Hart)</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//figcaption></news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//figure>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>Within this environment, Zhao/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u2019s team studies how microwave signals and tiny vibrating mechanical resonators can exchange quantum information through carefully controlled interactions.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>Traditionally,&nbsp;researchers&nbsp;have&nbsp;sought&nbsp;to&nbsp;isolate&nbsp;quantum systems from&nbsp;the&nbsp;external&nbsp;environment as much as possible when&nbsp;building&nbsp;quantum computers, says Zhao.&nbsp;However, these physical systems are constantly interacting with their&nbsp;environment&nbsp;and&nbsp;should be used to generate new ways of thinking about&nbsp;the methods&nbsp;of quantum information processing.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201cPractically, the ultimate success will be a big step towards a fault-tolerant quantum computing that solves problems beyond the capability of modern computing technology&nbsp;for applications in quantum simulations, complicated optimizations in relevance with the global economy and information security,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/u201d&nbsp;Zhao says.</news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984//p>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<hr>/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/153984/n<p><em>This research is supported by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. 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