The experimental setup of the ETH researchers. The trap chip is located inside the container underneath the silver cupola, in which a lens captures the light emitted by the trapped ions. Credit: ETH ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories has produced its first lot of a new world-class ion trap, a central component for certain quantum computers. The new device, dubbed the Enchilada Trap, ...

NIST physicists have designed and built a novel electromagnetic trap for ions that could be easily mass produced to potentially make quantum computers large enough for practical use. The new trap may ...

Conceptual illustration (left) and physical mockup (right, at OIST) of Qubitcore’s distributed ion-trap quantum computer, visualizing quantum entanglement via optical fiber links between traps.

A small number of ytterbium ions could out-compute even the best superconducting quantum computers, a soon-to-be-published paper experimenting on the latest ion trapping quantum machines says.

The energy states of electrons in an atom follow the laws of quantum mechanics: they are not continuously distributed but restricted to certain well- defined values – this is also called quantisation.

(Nanowerk News) Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have designed and built a novel electromagnetic trap for ions that could be easily mass produced to potentially ...