Unconventional superconductor may be used to create quantum computers of the future
With their insensitivity to decoherence what are known as Majorana particles could become stable building blocks of a quantum computer. The problem is that they only occur under very special circumstances. Now researchers have succeeded in manufacturing a component that is able to host the.
The aluminum plates were attached to the topological insulator using platinum. The picture (scale bar: 200 nm) shows one of the devices used in the experiment. Because of the stress, induced by various cooldowns, a clear buckling feature appears in the nanogap of the device. This modification is causing the characteristics of the superconducting pairs of an electron to vary in different directions, a signature of unconventional superconductivity.
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