Engineer Kirill Spasibko (R) adjusts a laser to test chips with waveguides for quantum computing at the technology company Q.ant in Stuttgart, Germany, on September 14, 2021. (Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP via Getty Images)
Post-doc fellows Meenakshi Singh and Jose Pacheco stand in front of Sandia’s ion beam generator in 2016. Project PI Meenakshi holds a sample qubit structure embedded in silicon. (Sandia National Laboratories / Randy Montoya)
A miniaturized ion trap for the simultaneous use of different ion strings for quantum information processing. (Institute of High Energy Physics at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna / Flickr)
Legislation proposing to develop a unified national strategy for researching quantum information science could soon become law after passing the Senate.