Australia researchers say find new way to build quantum computers


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  • Wednesday, 06 Sep 2017

Quantum computation engineers Andrea Morello (L) and Guilherme Tosi from the University of New South Wales are photographed in this handout imaged in Sydney, Australia, July 24, 2017. Picture taken July 24, 2017. University of New South Wales/Quentin Jones/Handout via REUTERS. ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVE.

SINGAPORE: Researchers in Australia have found a new way to build quantum computers which they say would make them dramatically easier and cheaper to produce at scale.  

Quantum computers promise to harness the strange ability of subatomic particles to exist in more than one state at a time to solve problems that are too complex or time-consuming for existing computers. 

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