'Valley states' in this 2D material could potentially be used for quantum computing

New research on 2-dimensional tungsten disulfide (WS2) could open the door to advances in quantum computing. Scientists report that they can manipulate the electronic properties of this super-thin material in ways that could be useful for encoding quantum data.

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IBM’s new 53-qubit quantum ‘mainframe’ is live in the cloud

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 12:10:59 +0000

IBM has boosted its growing stable of quantum computers with a new 53-quantum bit (qubit) device, the most powerful ever offered for commercial use.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NcZHCu0FsAw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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New method for detecting quantum states of electrons

Researchers have devised a new method — called image charge detection — to detect electrons' transitions to quantum states. Electrons can serve as quantum bits, the smallest unit of quantum information; these bits are foundational to larger computational systems. Quantum computers may be used to understand the mechanism of superconductivity, cryptography, artificial intelligence, among other applications.

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