News World First Room Temperature Quantum Computer Installed in Australia

w_barath

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World First Room Temperature Quantum Computer Installed in Australia

A number of techniques, such as magnetic or electric fields, microwave radiation, or light can be used to directly manipulate the nitrogen-vacancy center's electron spin.

Nowhere in Quantum Brilliance's press materials does it say electron spin. In fact, the whole reason their tech works at room temp is because it doesn't use coherency-fragile electron spin for its quantum state.

Instead it uses nuclear spin, which is many many orders of magnitude more stable.

Please read and understand what you are posting about.
 

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Yes hurry up and become a quantum mechanics physicist before you post another story to this tech blog. The nerve.
Nobody’s saying every journalist needs to be a expert about everything they post about. But if they’re not an expert they should get help from one, or simply not write things they don’t know to be correct. Rule of thumb in life in general: if you don’t know something just be open about not knowing it.
 
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w_barath

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Yes hurry up and become a quantum mechanics physicist before you post another story to this tech blog. The nerve.

Actually, the author only needed to pay attention, and have a grade 10 science education. If you went to Sr High then you learned about Chemistry and Atoms. Electrons in orbitals, Protons and Neutrons in the nucleus, along with the Periodic Table of the Elements.

Instead the author spoke out of their backside, apparently not having even read much beyond the headline. This level of reporting belongs at Beta News, not Tom's Hardware.
 
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