Its operation is based on qubits, units of information constructed from particles that have a quantum behavior.
For this purpose, laser-bound atoms, ion traps and sometimes the properties of superconductors are used.
The strange rules of quantum mechanics make work difficult.
Engineers from the University of New South Wales (Australia) have presented a radically new qubit design.
The design has a great advantage.
It works without having to place the atoms in a very strict position, as with other chips.
In particular, it allows the qubits to be interlaced at distances of up to hundreds of nanometers.
This allows overcoming a great limitation in the design of quantum computers: size.
The only solution is that they have a miniature size of just a few nanometers.
At the moment the technology is not able to achieve it.
Our new approach is at the ideal intermediate point, said Andrea Morello, co-author of the research.
According to many researchers, the design of quantum computers is the space race of the twenty-first century.
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