Thoughts:Is this Uranium compound radioactive do you think? As in hazardous? 
Drexler's nanotech looks best used in medical microrobots, and not 
manufacturing-and that prize goes to 3D-bulk printing.I believe there has been 
problems in getting these entanglements in QC to successfully attain actual 
operations. Does this sound right?How many successful operations per sec will 
QC need to do, before it dramatically achieves 'supremacy?'How many successful 
operations per sec will it take to achieve a network that improves on, or 
creates, new inventions for humans?What I am attempting to do to is ascertain 
impact on society, how much, and when?  

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From: John Clark <[email protected]>
To: everything-list <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, Aug 21, 2019 6:56 pm
Subject: Very recent developments in topological quantum computing ​

In my opinion a scalable quantum computer could bring about a singularity in 
human affairs as surely as Drexler's nanotechnology, and the most promising way 
of achieving this is through a fault tolerant topological quantum computer. In 
the current issue of the journal Science (August 16 2019) a revolutionary new 
type of superconductor has been discovered, uranium ditelluride (UTe2), that 
may turn out to have some considerable bearing on this. Nick Butch, from the 
National Institute of Standards and one of the authors of the paper says:
"This is potentially the silicon of the quantum information age. You could use 
uranium ditelluride to build the qubits of an efficient quantum computer."
ferromagnetic spin-triplet superconductivity
Uranium Ditelluride is a very unusual superconductor for several reasons:
1) It is a topological superconductor, meaning that the interior is a insulator 
but the surface is a superconductor.
2)  It can tolerate enormously strong magnetic fields, much higher than other 
superconductors.
3) Most superconductors are spin singlet, this means that the spins in the 
electrons in the Cooper Pairs, which carry the electrical current in all 
superconductors, are lined up in a antiparallel direction; but Uranium 
Ditelluride is spin triplet, their electron spins are perpendicular.

All this adds up to the surface of uranium ditelluride being the ideal stage 
set to produce logic gates made of Majorana pseudoparticles that obey 
non-Abelian statistics. And that means you could store quantum information 
topologically which would make it very resistant to quantum decoherence for the 
same reason you're unlikely to be able to untie a knot by just bumping it, you 
might change its shape but not its topological properties. And quantum 
decoherence is by far the most important obstacle we must overcome if we want 
to build a scalable quantum computer.
And that is not the only new development in the last few weeks, Javad Shaban 
and his team found something similar in Indium arsenide (InAs) although you 
must get it much colder before it becomes superconducting, .007 Kelvin verses 
1.6 Kelvin for Uranium ditelluride. 
Phase signature of topological transition in Josephson Junctions

Dr. Shabani said:"We see value in these particles because of their potential to 
store quantum information in a special computation space where quantum 
information is protected from the environment noise. As a result, we have 
sought to engineer platforms on which these calculations could be conducted. 
The new discovery of topological superconductivity in a two-dimensional 
platform paves the way for building scalable topological qubits to not only 
store quantum information, but also to manipulate the quantum states that are 
free of error. These findings strongly supports the emergence of a topological 
phase in the system. This offers a scalable platform for detection and 
manipulation of Majorana bounds states for development of complex circuits for 
fault-tolerant topological quantum computing."
By the way, the leading company in all this is none other than Microsoft.
John K Clark
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