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Physicists are now using a tightly controlled laser and a cloud of ultracold atoms to imitate the behavior of electrons in solids, effectively building a quantum version of electronics out of light ...

Ultracold atoms have successfully mimicked a fundamental quantum effect normally found in electronic circuits.

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Russian scientists have created the country’s first ion-based quantum computer using a new type of quantum unit that works ...