PhD Student solves room temperature quantum computer problem

[Baron von Lotsov]

Her name is Irati Alonso Calafell and this is her paper



https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2060586556_I_Alonso_Calafell">https://www.researchgate.net/scientific ... o_Calafell">https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2060586556_I_Alonso_Calafell



Published this year in fact, she led a team of researchers at Vienna University ( https://walther.quantum.at/people/">https://walther.quantum.at/people/ ) and developed a simple quantum logic gate out of a piece of graphene.



It's a damn clever idea. In short, how this works is you have what is known as a quasi-particle, which is in this case a varying electric field which is a quantum oscillator, like a photon but its virtual. You can introduce two of these to interact with one another, and by constantly taking measurements you can freeze the state in time, which is called the Zeno effect.



Anyhow to cut a long story short, this is what the world has been waiting for, because other quantum computers have been crap. One type uses a load of optics which take up a very large table, and the other type has to be cooled to almost absolute zero. This is more like a gate on a chip. This means one can eventually build a quantum computer on a chip, and that will change the world.



I've got to  say though, she's a very clever woman. People have been trying to solved this problem for decades and billions have gone into looking for a solution.