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First-ever mechanical qubit with a long lifespan created on shiny sapphire crystal: « This incredible mechanical qubit comes with 200 microseconds of coherence time, twice that of a superconducting qubit. »


First-ever fully functional mechanical qubit is a two-in-one system combining the abilities of a mechanical oscillator and a superconducting qubit.

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