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Scientists create ‘world’s purest silicon’, and it could transform the world. Breakthrough material is ‘crucial step’ to technology that could be ‘transformative for humankind’ researchers say.
Discovery is ‘crucial step’ to technology that could be ‘transformative for humankind’ researchers say
But they can be affected by tiny variations in their environment, including changes in the temperature – so that even the quantum computers we have today, which are put into fridges that keep them at almost absolute zero, can only run without errors for a fraction of a second. “The great news is to purify silicon to this level, we can now use a standard machine – an ion implanter – that you would find in any semiconductor fabrication lab, tuned to a specific configuration that we designed,” said David Jamieson, from the University of Melbourne, who co-supervised the project. Researchers pointed to a host of potential breakthroughs that would be enabled with practical quantum computers: new powers for artificial intelligence, communications, the creation of new drugs and new ways of using energy.
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