First silicon entanglement will aid quantum computing
January 20, 2011 | Source: New Scientist
John Morton of the University of Oxford and colleagues achieved entanglement in silicon for the first time by using a half-millimeter-wide crystal of silicon studded with phosphorus atoms.
The feat could lead to quantum computers made like ordinary computer chips. To do that, the team must create a “huge 2D grid of entanglement,” says Morton, in which nuclei are entangled with other phosphorus nuclei, as well as electrons.