Researchers at MIT have developed a process to manufacture and integrate "artificial atoms" with photonic circuitry, and in doing so, are able to produce the largest quantum chip of its kind.
The atoms, which are created by atomic-scale defects in microscopically thin slices of diamond, allow for the scaling up of quantum chip production.
The new development “marks a turning point” in the field of scalable quantum processors, Dirk Englund, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, explained in a press release.
Millions of quantum processors will be required for the oncoming, much-hyped advent of quantum computing. This new research shows there is a viable way to scale up processor production, the MIT team says.
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