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Quantum information on chicken wire

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The ability to build electronic structures from graphene sheets has progressed significantly. Two theoretical studies suggest that graphene nanostructures could be used for quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: Qubits on a graphene nanoribbon.

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  1. Vladimir Fal'ko is in the Physics Department of Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK. v.falko@lancaster.ac.uk,

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Fal'ko, V. Quantum information on chicken wire. Nature Phys 3, 151–152 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys556

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