Extending Quantum Memory

        Practical applications in quantum communication and quantum computation require the building blocks—quantum bits and quantum memory—to be sufficiently robust and long-lived to allow for manipulation and storage (see the Perspective by
        

Key Results

  • Steger et al.
  • 1280 ) demonstrate that the nuclear spins of 31 P impurities in an almost isotopically pure sample of 28 Si can have a coherence time of as long as 192 seconds at a temperature of ∼1.7 K.