The Geometry Of An Electron Determined For The First Time
The spin of an electron is a promising candidate for use as the smallest information unit (qubit) of a quantum computer. Scientists in the teams headed by professors Dominik Zumbühl and Daniel Loss from the Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute at the University of Basel have now developed a method by which they can spatially determine the geometry of electrons in quantum dots. A quantum dot is a potential trap which allows to confine free electrons in an area which is about 1000 times larger than a natural atom.
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