Now, researchers at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) have brought a twist to the famous Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment, using a heavy atom and a silicon chip to address one of the ...
The antimony cat is embedded inside a silicon quantum chip, similar to the ones we have in our computers and mobile phones, but adapted to give access to the quantum state of a single atom.
To get around this problem, the researchers behind the new study embedded an antimony atom, which has eight different spin directions, inside a silicon quantum chip. The six additional spin ...
Antimony is a heavy atom that can be implanted in a silicon chip, replacing one of ... such as Google's 70 qubit model or IBM's version which has more than 1000, they require much larger spaces ...