Ready to suspend your brain cells in a superposition of disbelief. Good, because the latest news published in Nature is that diamonds are a quantum computer's best friend - particularly if they're flawed. An international team of scientists sought out sub-atomic impurities in a 1mm-thick fragment of over-priced carbon and used these as qubits to perform successful calculations. A "rogue" nitrogen nucleus provided one qubit, while a free electron became a second.
Engadget, Flawed diamonds are perfect ingredients for quantum computing, just add time travel
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