Entangling Billions of Qubits

Ten billion qubits are entangled in this tiny cube of silicon. The object in the background is a penny provided for scale.

This small grey crystal of silicon inside a glass test tube contains 10 billion pairs of entangled spin qubits. Qubits are potentially computing elements in powerful quantum computers that could solve problems beyond the capabilities of conventional computers.

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