Tiny music instruments may be the key to the future of quantum computing. Gizmodo reported that NIST researchers had built two Mincisul (around human hair width), aluminum drums that were entangled in quantum to measure their properties and lay the foundation for a large quantum network.
The team uses a microwave light to give a two pattern drum (one “cool and calm,” the other is less stable) which is entangled at the level so that human instruments do not match the level of their coordination. Scientists then measure small differences in the position of the drum head and find that they will move at the same speed in relation to each other, only in different directions.
NIST can only maintain active attachments for around 200 microseconds even in zero zero close to the experiment. However, it will be long enough for them to be used as a qubit to store data and turn it into and from a microwave that can be sent to a quantum computer that is far away on the network. Other researchers have tried this before, but they have not succeeded with attachments based on requests like this.
There is still a lot of work left before it reaches hardware outside the laboratory. The research group wants to make drums carry out complex operations. Breakthroughs suggest it’s just a matter of time, though, and the practical quantum network may be much closer.