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Spinning towards scalable circuits

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Silicon devices form the backbone of modern computers. It turns out that they might also be a natural hardware platform for a new era of computing technology that uses the principles of quantum physics. See Letter p.541

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Figure 1: A spin qubit device.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 19 September 2012.

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  1. Lee C. Bassett and David D. Awschalom are at the Center for Spintronics and Quantum Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.,

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Bassett, L., Awschalom, D. Spinning towards scalable circuits. Nature 489, 505–507 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11488

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