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Quantum physics: Tailor-made quantum states
Yasunobu Nakamura1
Abstract
The ability to produce arbitrarily superposed quantum states is a prerequisite for creating a workable quantum computer. Such highly complex states can now be generated on demand in superconducting electronic circuitry.
As an innocent reductionist in elementary school, I dreamed of creating everything in the world by assembling atoms one by one, just like building with Lego blocks. Decades later, the dream has, to some extent, come true with the 'bottom-up' approach of nanotechnology in which, for example, single atoms can be manipulated and assembled using the tip of a scanning probe microscope.
- Yasunobu Nakamura is at the NEC Nano Electronics Research Laboratories, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8501, and the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan.
Email: yasunobu@ce.jp.nec.com
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