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This is a bowtie-shaped nanoparticle made of silver with a trapped semiconductor quantum dot (indicated by the red arrow). Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science

Bowtie-shaped Nanostructures may advance development of Quantum devices. Made of silver, these may help bring the dream of quantum computing and quantum information processing closer to reality. They greatly simplify the experimental conditions for studying quantum phenomena and may one day be developed into crucial components.

Led by Prof. Gilad Haran of Weizmann’s Chemical Physics Department the team manufactured 2D bowtie-shaped silver nanoparticles with a minuscule gap of about 20 nanometers in the center...