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Semiconductor Nanocrosses Lay Foundations for Topological Quantum Bits

  • By Workstudy User •
  • 17 October 2013

PQI faculty Sergey Frolov co-authors a paper in Nature Nanotechnology on the growth and characterization of high quality semiconductor nanocross structures. These structures are the building blocks for topological quantum bits based on recently discovered Majorana fermions.

These tests should make clear whether or not Majorana’s (and the nanowires that house them) are a suitable base for the so-called topological quantum computer.

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Connecting the (Quantum) Dots: Spin Technique Moves Researchers Closer to Creating First Viable High-Speed Quantum Computer

  • By Aude Marjolin •
  • 26 February 2013

Recent research offers a new spin on using nanoscale semiconductor structures to build faster computers and electronics. Literally.

Researchers at PQI and Delft University of Technology reveal in the Nature Nanotechnology a new method that better preserves the units necessary to power lightning-fast electronics, known as qubits (pronounced CUE-bits). Hole spins, rather than electron spins, can keep quantum bits in the same physical state up to 10 times longer than before, the report finds.

 

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