quantum dot
Aug 22 2008, Jaiyant Cavale

We might be at the brink of seeing the world’s fastest quantum computer. Making use of the advantage that qubit has over normal bit, lasers were used to create a solid state qubit at rates of approximately one gigahertz. It employs what researchers...

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