Engineers crack 58-year-old puzzle on way to quantum breakthrough
Another happy accident in the world of science - this time with significant implications for development of quantum computers and sensors. A mishap during an experiment led quantum computing researchers to crack a mystery that had stood since 1961. A team of engineers at University of New South Wales Sydney controlled the nucleus of a single atom using only electric fields. "This discovery means that we now have a pathway to build quantum computers using single-atom spins without the need for any oscillating magnetic field for their operation," says UNSW's Scientia Professor of Quantum Engineering Andrea Morello. "Moreover, we can use these nuclei as exquisitely precise sensors of electric and magnetic fields, or to answer fundamental questions in quantum science."
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Read more about it at https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200311121822.htm