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New silicon chip could blaze a trail for quantum computing

MINING.com Editor | April 17, 2013 | 6:17 pm Australia 

Engineers at Australia's University of New South Wales (UNSW) are using the nucleus of a single silicon atom as the base for a new "qubit" - the building block for quantum computers - which promises dramatic increases in future data...

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