Electric Wire 4 x 1 Atoms In Dimensions Ready For Your Pocket Quantum Computer

We know a large bunch of our crazy engineers are trying to build their own quantum computers but stuck because they can't find thinner electric wires on eBay. Worry no more because research engineers from Melbourne & Purdue Universities have created an atomic wire just 4 atoms thick. That's just about 10000 times thinner wire than a human hair and it follows Ohm's law. This atomic thin electric wire has the same electric current carrying abilities as your regular copper wire and the researchers believe that it could just revolutionize the creation of atomic circuits.


Atomic Electric Wire | Image Credit: UNSW

Researchers created this atomic wire by placing chains of Phosphorus atoms within silicon crystals. PhD student Bent Weber says that it's astonishing to see the basic law of physics holds true even with the wire made of basic building blocks of nature. The study was published in #-Link-Snipped-#and the abstract mentions that the wire has extremely low resistivity ~0.3 milliohm-centimeters.

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We can't wait to order one on eBay. What about you?

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