The Quest for an Ideal Quantum Bit: A New Qubit Breakthrough Could Revolutionize Quantum Computing
A new qubit platform: electrons from a heated luminous filament (top) land on a solid neon (red block), where a single electron (represented by a wave function in blue) is trapped and manipulated by a superconducting quantum circuit (patterned chip at bottom). Credit: Courtesy of Dafei Jin/Argonne National Laboratory A new qubit platform could transform …