#MEMS: "Micro-Mirrors to Enable Quantum Computing"

Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) moved closer to enabling quantum computing with university researchers demonstrating that micro-mirrors can read and write qubits encoded on clouds of ultra-cold atoms suspended in a transparent media. Look for laser controlled optical quantum computers to debut in about 10 years. R. Colin Johnson, Kyoto Prize Fellow @NextGenLog


Ultracold cloud of atoms used to store quantum qubits in the laboratory of Mark Saffman's group at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Here is what my EETimes story says about quantum MEMS: Semiconductor memories today need bit-lines to address them before reading or writing, but according to Duke University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, qubits can be likewise addressed with two lasers focused on them by MEMS micro-mirrors.
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