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Superconducting bus heralds quantum chip

26 September 2007

TO GO mainstream, quantum computers will have to be made in bulk. A working quantum chip brings that goal a step nearer.

Japanese researchers have already shown that two quantum bits or “qubits” can be entangled on the surface of a chip (Âé¶¹´«Ã½, 22 February 2003, p 16). Now two separate groups at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, () and at Yale University () have used a photon in a cavity to transmit data between two qubits on a superconducting chip. One…

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