Purer silicon lets robust quantum computing get started on a new medium
By 
Tim Wogan2026-01-13T14:30:00
System is highly accurate and amenable to scaling without compromising quality
An 11-qubit quantum processor has been demonstrated by researchers in Australia using phosphorus atoms doped into isotopically-pure silicon-28.1 The researchers believe the system, which is highly robust to noise, could scale more easily than current quantum computers that use ion-trap qubits and the superconducting qubits that won the 2025 Nobel prize for physics.