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Quantum Computers Could Change Everything

What's Your Problem?

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How to Make a Quantum Computer

Lasers push atoms around and they interact with their neighbors. You can see a single atom with your naked eye in my laboratory. And this laser beam, if the atom is in the state one, it will glow. It's like a star. If it's in the state zero, it's dark. So we basically look for bright, dark, bright, dark. And that's what we read out. That's a quantum computer. We built several of them.

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