A team of physicists at ETH Zürich has built the first-ever working mechanical qubit. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group describes their novel idea for creating such a qubit ...
The device consists of a sapphire chip with a superconducting qubit (gray rectangles, left) on top of another that acts as a mechanical oscillator (gray dot, right). Credit: Uwe Von Luepke/ETH Zürich ...