[HN Gopher] Electric cooling could shrink quantum computers
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Electric cooling could shrink quantum computers
 
Author : mfiguiere
Score  : 34 points
Date   : 2023-09-12 20:03 UTC (2 hours ago)
 
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| westurner wrote:
| How does electric cooling compare to say optoelectronic laser
| cooling in terms of cost and efficiency?
| 
| Laser cooling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_cooling
 
  | throw1234651234 wrote:
  | Is any of this used in practice? I don't see a "(Practical)
  | Applications" section.
 
    | westurner wrote:
    | QC and Quantum Simulation:
    | 
    | /? laser cooling quantum simulation https://www.google.com/se
    | arch?q=Laser+cooling+quantum+simula...
    | 
    | From https://phys.org/news/2016-04-laser-cool-quantum-
    | liquid.amp :
    | 
    | > _In the experiments, the team created a superfluid helium
    | film on a silicon chip._
    | 
    | > _They then used a bright laser beam to draw energy out of
    | waves on the surface of the superfluid, cooling them._
    | 
    | > _In addition to laser cooling, the research team showed
    | that combining superfluid with microphotonics allows
    | extremely precise measurements of superfluid waves_
    | 
    | Additionally, FWIU there are now inexpensive integrated
    | lasers from which a laser cooling array could be built to
    | enclose a QC sim
 
  | petsfed wrote:
  | Based on the wikipedia article, macroscopic laser cooling is
  | largely used for cooling gases.
  | 
  | Insofar as I'm aware, laser cooling is always used as the final
  | stage of gas cooling, on top of more standard methods, because
  | there are more efficient methods to go from e.g. room
  | temperature to cryogenic temperatures, and cryogenic to near-
  | absolute-zero temperatures and so on. The method in the
  | article, as I understand it, is meant specifically to address
  | the cooling that's typically done with e.g. liquid nitrogen and
  | liquid helium, not necessarily what's done below Helium-4's
  | condensation temperature. The article is definitely too vague
  | to know if thermionic cooling addresses a Helium-3 stage or
  | not.
 
| baz00 wrote:
| Have they made them useful yet?
 
  | trwaw wrote:
  | [dead]
 
  | datameta wrote:
  | I think what is missing (and I'm stretching my understanding
  | here) is the right doping mixture and crystal structure to get
  | a high enough efficiency of emissions from the junctions.
 
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