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Could Aluminum Nitride be engineered to produce Quantum bits?

This graphic illustrates an engineered nitrogen vacancy in aluminum nitride. Credit: H.Seo, M.Govoni and G.Galli, University of Chicago

This graphic illustrates an engineered nitrogen vacancy in aluminum nitride. Credit: H.Seo, M.Govoni and G.Galli, University of Chicago

The leading method for qubit creation involves exploiting the structural defects in diamonds. But researchers found that the same defect could be engineered in cheaper aluminum nitride. If confirmed by experiments, this could significantly reduce the cost of manufacturing quantum technologies. Using supercomputers at NERSC at Berkeley Lab, these researchers have identified a possible candidate in aluminum nitride...

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