Their qubits are made
from ytterbium ions held in place by magnetic fields and lasers, a technology with its origins in atomic clocks.
Not exact matches
In the experimental work
from Monroe's group, physicists examined how quickly quantum connections formed in a crystal of eleven
ytterbium ions confined in an electromagnetic trap.
Three of those elements —
ytterbium, erbium, and terbium — were simply given additional variants on the name of Ytterby, while the other three were named holmium (for Stockholm), scandium, and thulium (both
from the Latin for Scandinavia), in the nationalistic fashion then in favor.
Physicists
from the University of Tennessee succeeded in replicating the original
ytterbium crystal, and Mourigal examined it at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where it was cooled down to a temperature of -273.09 degrees Celsius (0.06 degrees Kelvin).