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New parallel gate entangles diamond qubits 10 times faster at room temperature
Quantum technologies rely on qubits, units of information that can exist in combinations of the states 0 and 1 instead of being limited to one or the other like conventional bits.
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Researchers demonstrated a new parallel gate that entangles nitrogen‑vacancy center qubits in diamond about ten times faster than previous methods while operating at room temperature. The gate uses a sequence of microwave pulses to simultaneously couple multiple qubits, reducing the time required for entanglement generation. The experiment was conducted in a laboratory setting with diamond samples containing nitrogen‑vacancy centers, a leading platform for solid‑state quantum information processing. This advancement could accelerate the development of scalable quantum processors that function without cryogenic cooling.
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