They say a watched pot never boils. Thanks to a quirk of quantum mechanics, a similar thing can be said of atoms, which refuse to decay while you peek at them. A new plan to exploit this effect may overcome one of the biggest obstacles to building a quantum computer. rnIn theory, quantum computers should be far superior to their conventional counterparts because they will rapidly manipulate huge amounts of information stored in quantum bits, or qubits.
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