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Physicists Use Sound Waves to Keep Quantum Information from Slipping Away


A team of physicists at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has found that a steady stream of sound waves can shield a fragile quantum bit from its own noisy surroundings, nearly tripling how long it holds information.

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