Quantum physics: Qubits ride the photon bus

Antti Niskanen; Yasunobu Nakamura

doi:10.1038/449415a

Quantum physics: Qubits ride the photon bus

Antti Niskanen, Yasunobu Nakamura

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

NEC Corporation

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Quantum mechanics using whole electrical circuits might seem a far-fetched idea. But make the circuits superconducting, and they can be used to send and collect single photons, rather like atoms do — only better.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	415-417
Journal	Nature
Volume	449
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/449415a
Publication status	Published - 2007
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

qubits
quantum mechanics
superconducting devices
superconducting circuits
resonators
quantum computing

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