Atomic ‘conveyor belt’ boosts power of quantum computer

Castelvecchi, Davide

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Array system could help to scale up technology that uses atoms to create qubits.

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  1. Davide Castelvecchi

A conveyor belt of atoms arranged in orderly rows could resolve a major stumbling block towards developing a large-scale quantum computer.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03002-x

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