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The Importance of Quantum Mechanics in Quantum Technology
Many of the most important discoveries in quantum mechanics happened right here at the University of Chicago. Arthur Compton, Enrico Fermi and Maria Gepart Meyer used quantum to explain the atom's nuclear shell structure. Today's machines use classical bits, computing, communicating information using digital zeros and ones. But quantum machines use quantum bits, which are called qubits.