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  • 'Subatomic baseball' could speed up tomorrow’s quantum computers

    Mar 10, 2023 12:30 pm by InverseIllinois in the News
    uncredited graphic depicts laser beams tossing and catching atoms in a baseball-like 'game of catch'

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    Inverse (March 10) 'Arrays of neutral atoms trapped in focused laser beams are one of the leading quantum computing platforms,' U. of I. physicist Brian Leeds DeMarco says. But it's tough to create a defect-free array where no atoms are missing.