UCLA Scientists Control a Single Electron’s Spin With Commercial Transitor
July 23, 2004 | Source: KurzweilAI
A UCLA team succeeded in flipping a single electron spin upside down in an ordinary commercial integrated circut chip for the first time, and in detecting that the current changes when the electron flips.
“Our research demonstrates that an ordinary transistor can be adapted for practical quantum computing,” said UCLA professor of physics Hong Wen Jiang.
They flipped the spin of the electron by changing a microwave radio frequency.
A next step is to demonstrate the “entanglement” of two spins, where the orientation of one electron determines the orientation of the other