Researchers have achieved a breakthrough towards building scalable quantum computers. The team used cryoelectronics ...

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 ...

Electrical engineer Ray Haltli optimizes parameters before placing gold wire bonds on an ion trap. When ready, the machine runs automatically, placing up to seven wires per second. (Photo by Craig ...

A new technical paper titled “Penning micro-trap for quantum computing” was published by researchers at ETH Zürich, Leibniz Universität Hannover, and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt. “Trapped ...

IonQ, Inc. (NYSE:IONQ) shares are trading higher on Thursday. IonQ has announced the display of its ion trap technology—the foundation of its quantum computers—at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

Precise control of the interaction of a trapped ion and an optical field provides the basis for single-photon pulses and quantum computation Researchers at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) ...

Quantum crystal: A quantum sensor built from a collection of beryllium ions (red spheres) in a Penning trap. (Courtesy: Steve Burrows) An ultra-precise quantum sensor based on trapped beryllium ions ...

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.

Researchers at ETH have managed to trap ions using static electric and magnetic fields and to perform quantum operations on them. In the future, such traps could be used to realize quantum computers ...