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Nature Physics 2, 40–43 (1 January 2006) | doi:10.1038/nphys192

Bang|[ndash]|bang control of fullerene qubits using ultrafast phase gates

John J. L. Morton , Alexei M. Tyryshkin , Arzhang Ardavan , Simon C. Benjamin , Kyriakos Porfyrakis , S. A. Lyon & G. Andrew D. Briggs

Quantum mechanics permits an entity, such as an atom, to exist in a superposition of multiple states simultaneously. Quantum information processing (QIP) harnesses this profound phenomenon to manipulate information in radically new ways.