Physicists Control the Spin of a Single Electron

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday August 17, 2006 @06:37AM from the making-my-head-spin dept.

jeeb writes "Researchers of the Delft University of Technology and the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter have succeeded for the first time in controlling the spin of a single electron in a nanostructure. They are able to rotate the axis to every possible direction and to record it accordingly. This achievement makes it possible to use the electron's spin as a 'quantum bit,' the basis of a (still theoretical) future quantum computer. The researchers have published this scientific breakthrough in the August 17, 2006 edition of Nature."

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Stop That by ReidMaynard · 2006-08-17 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny

It makes the electrons dizzy.

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Researchers by Anonymous Coward · 2006-08-17 06:52 · Score: 5, Funny

The researchers working on this are doing so to obtain their PhDs. Presumably they will henceforth be known as "spin doctors".