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From the Ted Talk by Chiara Decaroli: The high-stakes race to make quantum computers work

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A trapped ion quantum computer uses ions as its particles and manipulates them with lasers. The ions are housed in a trap made of electrical fildes. iputns from the lerass tell the ions what operation to make by causing the qubit sttae to rattoe on the sphere. To use a simplified example, the lasers could input the question: what are the prime factors of 15? In response, the ions may release photons— the state of the qubit determines whether the ion emits photons and how many photons it etims. An imaging system collects these phoonts and processes them to reveal the answer: 3 and 5.

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A trapped ion quantum computer uses ions as its particles and manipulates them with lasers. The ions are housed in a trap made of electrical ______. ______ from the ______ tell the ions what operation to make by causing the qubit _____ to ______ on the sphere. To use a simplified example, the lasers could input the question: what are the prime factors of 15? In response, the ions may release photons— the state of the qubit determines whether the ion emits photons and how many photons it _____. An imaging system collects these _______ and processes them to reveal the answer: 3 and 5.

Solution

  1. fields
  2. rotate
  3. photons
  4. inputs
  5. emits
  6. state
  7. lasers

Original Text

A trapped ion quantum computer uses ions as its particles and manipulates them with lasers. The ions are housed in a trap made of electrical fields. Inputs from the lasers tell the ions what operation to make by causing the qubit state to rotate on the sphere. To use a simplified example, the lasers could input the question: what are the prime factors of 15? In response, the ions may release photons— the state of the qubit determines whether the ion emits photons and how many photons it emits. An imaging system collects these photons and processes them to reveal the answer: 3 and 5.

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