The engineer of Vanderbilt University was the first to introduce low-power dynamic manipulation of single nanoscale quantum objects.
Image:(1) Low-frequency electrothermoplasmonic tweezer device rendering. Credit: Justus Ndukaife (https://phys.org/news/2021-07-vanderbilt-low-power-dynamic-nanoscale-quantum.html) The low-power manipulation for single nano-scale quantum objects is one of the most fantastic things in the history of computing. The ability to move nano-scale objects is making it possible to create atomic-size microchips and nanomachines. The system that Verdenbildt researchers introduced used electrothermoplasmonic tweezers that can move objects like nanodiamonds. The size of nanodiamonds is about 100 nanometers, but the system can maybe soon in the future move even the atom-size objects. The ability to move the 100 nanometer-size objects is making it possible to move the extremely small elements for the quantum annealing systems. Those nanometer-size objects can be the nanodiamonds, that are cooled to a temperature, that is near zero-kelvin degrees. And those crystals can maybe create a table-size ...