Helium, the lightest atom that can be laser-cooled and controlled, powers a new design for high-powered, stable quantum computers. Assoc. Jacob Covey’s team at University of Chicago laid out a concept that could use high-powered lasers as “optical tweezers” to capture and control individual helium atoms, offering an advance over designs based on lithium.
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