Resonance Frequency of Single Atomic Defects Can Be Changed
by Mechanical Deformation / Materials for Nanoelectronic Components Can Be
Studied Better
In the far future, superconducting quantum bits might serve
as components of high-performance computers. Today already do they help better
understand the structure of solids, as is reported by researchers of Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology in the Science magazine. By means of Josephson
junctions, they measured the oscillations of individual atoms “tunneling”
be-tween two positions. This means that the atoms oscillated quantum
mechanically. Deformation of the specimen even changed the frequency
journal reference (abstract free): Science >>