Nicholas Fearn is a freelance technology and business journalist from the Welsh Valleys.
Quantum bits, or qubits, made from electrons floating on top of liquid helium could one day power the next generation of quantum computers, according to a new study.
Other particles used as qubits include trapped ions, photons, artificial or real atoms and quasiparticles, according to Microsoft, and most qubits achieve a superposition by cooling a superconducting metal to absolute zero. These defects can cause several issues, including “unpredictable electrical potential” and difficulty producing “many uniform qubits,” the scientists said in a statement. It also means that scaling up the number of qubits in a quantum system will amplify the error rate.
“Solid-state crystals will always have some defects, which means we cannot create a perfect environment for electrons,” said lead author of the paper, Erika Kawakami, a physicist working at the RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing in Japan, in the statement. “That is problematic if we want to create a lot of uniform qubits. And so it's better to have qubits in vacuum."
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