Australian engineers and physicists have developed a ‘single electron reader’, one of the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer. Their work was published online by Nature on Monday 27 September.
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3. Aalto University media release
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5. The paper is available at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.2679v3 and on Nature’s embargo pages.
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Project leaders Andrew Dzurak (left) and Andrea Morello. Credit: UNSW
Core UNSW experimental team: (from left) Jarryd Pla, Andrew Dzurak, Andrea Morello and Floris Zwanenburg. Credit: UNSW
Artist’s impression of a phosphorus atom (red sphere surrounded by a blue electron cloud, with spin) coupled to a silicon single-electron transistor, to achieve single-shot readout of the phosphorus electron spin. Credit: William Algar-Chuklin, College of Fine Arts, UNSW.