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dudus02/19/20252 repliesview on HN

Being able to detect a single electron among billions sounds more like a good way to get entropy rather than something that can help with quantum measurements. At least that's my initial intuition being completely ignorant in Quantum Computing.


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drpossum02/19/2025

Do you have other things you want to provide that your self-proclaimed ignorance would be helpful with?

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Mithriil02/19/2025

It doesn't detect a single electron, it detects parity of the number of electrons.