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Nature Materials 8, 368–369 (1 May 2009) | doi:10.1038/nmat2433

Quantum information: Mother Nature outgrown

Ronald Hanson

The emergence of a new technology is usually preceded by a substantial advance in materials science. For example, the manipulation of single spins in the solid state offers potential applications in quantum information processing, quantum simulations and ultrasensitive magnetometry.