The 'flip-flop' qubit: Realization of a new quantum bit in silicon controlled by electric signals

https://phys.org/news/2023-02-flip-flop-qubit-quantum-bit-silicon.html

"using spin of electron as well as nuclear spin of single phosphorus atom in silicon could be used as qubits... defining the qubit as the combined up-down / down-up orientation of the electron and the nucleus of the atom would permit controlling such a qubit using the electric fields alone, without requiring oscillating magnetic fields for operation... resembles the type of electrical signal normally routed within conventional silicon computer chips, as we use every day in our computers and smartphones"

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