Scientists could boost computing, sensing with progress in quantum tech


By Xu Jing
  • World
  • Thursday, 10 Dec 2020

CHICAGO, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) -- An interdisciplinary team of chemists and physicists at Northwestern University (NU) and the University of Chicago (Uchicago) has developed a new method to create tailor-made qubits, short for quantum bits, by chemically synthesizing molecules that encode quantum information into their magnetic, or "spin," states.

Qubits work by harnessing a phenomenon called superposition. While the classical bits used by conventional computers measure either 1 or 0, a qubit can be both 1 and 0 at the same time.

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