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Spinning towards scalable circuits

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Silicon devices form the backbone of modern computers. It turns out that they might also be a natural hardware platform for a new era of computing technology that uses the principles of quantum physics. See Letter p.541

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Figure 1: A spin qubit device.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion1 were published online on 19 September 2012.

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