Collaboration at Berkeley Lab’s Advanced Light Source
Induces High Temperature Superconductivity in a Toplogical Insulator
Reliable quantum computing would make it possible to solve
certain types of extremely complex technological problems millions of times
faster than today’s most powerful supercomputers. Other types of problems that
quantum computing could tackle would not even be feasible with today’s fastest
machines. The key word is “reliable.” If the enormous potential of quantum
computing is to be fully realized, scientists must learn to create
“fault-tolerant” quantum computers. A small but important step toward this goal
has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from
China’s Tsinghua University and the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley
Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).