MIT engineers use 'artificial atoms' to make the world's largest quantum chip of its kind

Researchers at MIT have developed a way to manufacturer "artificial atoms" to produce what they claim is the world's largest quantum chip of its kind. The atoms have been created in microscopically thin slices of diamond. The accomplishment "marks a turning point" in the field of quantum processors, said Dirk Englund, associate professor at MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, in a statement. These can be in binary positions – either on, or off. Apps, websites, and computer programmes are made up of information coded in this way.