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Research · Updated 28 Oct, 10:06 pm IST

German startup NVision proposes new path to quantum computing chips in Nature

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Why it matters for readers: It’s interesting because a medical-device technique unexpectedly points to new ways to build quantum chips.

  • NVision published a paper in Nature on Wednesday describing a new method for making quantum computing chips.1
  • The approach would borrow from widespread manufacturing techniques used for smartphone displays.1
  • NVision made the discovery while developing a medical-device machine that zaps special sugar molecules to align their electron spins.1
  • Aligned spins make those sugars about a thousand times easier for MRI machines to see, aiding detection of cancer cells.1
  • NVision has raised more than $155 million in funding from investors including Abbott Laboratories.1
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