The Melbourne Newsroom

An Australian-led team of scientists have developed the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon. Their work was published in Nature.

A research team from the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales, and Aalto University in Finland have been able to read out the spin orientation of a single electron on a single engineered atom in a nanoscale device they developed called “the single electron reader”.

An Australian-led team of scientists have developed the key building blocks needed to make a quantum computer using silicon. Their work was published today in Nature.

Galileo knew he had discovered a new planet in 1613, 234 years before its official discovery date, according to a new theory by a University of Melbourne physicist.