Long live ytterbium!

Long-lived metastable states found in trapped ions open new doors for quantum computing and atomic clocks

29-Jul-2026 - Researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived and nearly stable states, and if so, for how long. The measured long-lived states may find applications in ...

Atoms placed precisely in silicon can act as quantum simulator

26-Apr-2016 - In a proof-of-principle experiment, researchers at UNSW Australia have demonstrated that a small group of individual atoms placed very precisely in silicon can act as a quantum simulator, mimicking nature - in this case, the weird quantum interactions of electrons in materials. The publication of ...