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Quantum information on chicken wire

Nature Physics volume 3, pages 151–152 (2007)Cite this article

The ability to build electronic structures from graphene sheets has progressed significantly. Two theoretical studies suggest that graphene nanostructures could be used for quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: Qubits on a graphene nanoribbon.

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  1. Vladimir Fal'ko is in the Physics Department of Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB, UK. v.falko@lancaster.ac.uk,

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