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Bruce Kane proposes a quantum computer built in silicon
May 14, 1998
Bruce Kane of the University of New South Wales proposes storing qubits in the nuclear spins of phosphorus atoms embedded in silicon, controlling them with electric fields from gates on the chip and reading them out with currents of spin-polarized electrons.
Why it matters
It tied quantum computing to silicon, the material of ordinary chips. Kane noted that building such a machine would depend on future refinements of conventional silicon electronics.
Bruce Kane · UNSW Sydney
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Nature
A silicon-based nuclear spin quantum computer
“Information is encoded onto the nuclear spins of donor atoms in doped silicon electronic devices. Logical operations on individual spins are performed using externally applied electric fields, and spin measurements are made using currents of spin-polarized electrons. The realization of such a computer is dependent on future refinements of conventional silicon electronics.”
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The Quantum Insider
From Beaches to Bits to Qubits – Silicon's Journey in Quantum Computing
“Bruce Kane, a postdoctoral researcher at Australia’s University of New South Wales UNSW, proposed implanting phosphorus atoms into silicon.”
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