Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A team led by renowned Chinese physicist Pan Jianwei has built a key component for a quantum computer — an atom-arranging setup capable of creating arrays 10 times larger than previous systems — that raised hopes it could one day be scaled to tens of thousands of these tiny building blocks. The approach taken by Pan and his team from the University of Science and Technology of China overcomes a major hurdle to atom-based quantum computing, according to a paper published last week in the peer-reviewed Physical Review Letters. The researchers designed an artificial intelligence system capable of arranging more than 2,000 rubidium atoms – each serving as a qubit, the two-state basic unit of quantum computing – into perfect patterns in a mere 60,000th of a second, it said.” (08/13/25)