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Researchers have successfully induced ytterbium ions into metastable states lasting up to over 30 seconds, significantly extending the coherence times critical for trapped-ion quantum computing and high-precision atomic clocks. This breakthrough addresses a decades-old question regarding ion stability, offering new pathways to improve qubit lifetimes in next-generation hardware architectures.
Long live ytterbium !
Researchers from the Universities of Amsterdam and New South Wales have answered a question that has been around for decades: whether ions of the metal ytterbium can enter certain long-lived and nearly stable states, and if so, for how long. The measured long-lived states may find applications in quantum computers and atomic clocks. Two Yb⁺ ions…
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