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Europe Will Spend €1 Billion to Turn Quantum Physics Into Quantum Technology


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Dilution refrigerator

Cool Quantum Tech: This dilution refrigerator can cool quantum dots to less than 5 millikelvins for experiments in quantum computing.

Credit: Ernst de Groot

European quantum physicists have done some amazing things over the past few decades: sent single photons to Earth orbit and back, created quantum bits that will be at the heart of computers that can crack today’s encryption, and "teleported" the quantum states of photons, electrons, and atoms. But they've had less success at turning the science into technology.

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