Atomic Eiffel tower looms over quantum computing landscape
Many-atom arrays may become ideal quantum simulators for chemical systems
French scientists have used optical tweezers to make an Eiffel tower from rubidium atoms that, despite its tiny size, offers a grand view on chemistry’s future. The University of Paris-Saclay team can create ‘traps’ in ‘almost any desired geometry’, according to team-member Daniel Barredo, and load atoms into them.