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Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers

New technique could improve the scalability of trapped-ion quantum computers, an essential step toward making them practically useful. «Read more at MIT News»

Researchers developed a photonic chip that incorporates precisely designed antennas to manipulate beams of tightly focused, intersecting light, which can rapidly cool a quantum computing system to someday enable greater efficiency and stability.

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Photonics and Electronics Group
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Center for Quantum Engineering
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MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
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