“That was the hardest part,” Zakharevich said, “figuring out how to make everything line up properly.” After she and Hull managed to fit their gadgets together, they could encode everything they ...

In a new paper, they took it a logical step further and determined that it should be theoretically possible to use these techniques to make a liquid crystal perform operations like a computer.

In that paper, they showed that defects in crystals of silicon carbide can function at room temperature as ‘quantum bits,’ which are the basic building blocks of a quantum computer.

In a new paper, they took it a logical step further and determined that it should be theoretically possible to use these techniques to make a liquid crystal perform operations like a computer.