Scientists set traps for atoms with single-particle precision
Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 16:31
in Physics & Chemistry
Atoms, photons, and other quantum particles are often capricious and finicky by nature; very rarely at a standstill, they often collide with others of their kind. But if such particles can be individually corralled and controlled in large numbers, they may be harnessed as quantum bits, or qubits — tiny units of information whose state […]