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spaqinyesterday at 11:58 PM1 replyview on HN

That's most certainly good news (depending on the final cost) for ion trapping quantum computing - the wavelength of the laser they require to trap an ion depends on the molecule chosen, and most setups are expensive, finicky and difficult to calibrate, or sometimes messy if it's a dye laser.


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packetlosttoday at 12:06 AM

Neutral atom too. You need fairly clean light to pump atoms into Rydberg states