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What a pair! Coupled quantum dots may offer a new way to store quantum information

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Researchers have for the first time created and imaged a novel pair of quantum dots — tiny islands of confined electric charge that act like interacting artificial atoms. Such ”coupled” quantum dots could serve as a robust quantum bit, or qubit, the fundamental unit of information for a quantum computer.

Source: ScienceDaily.com