<story><title>Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-way-quantum-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nitrogen</author><text>The whole article is worth reading, but my favorite part is the fact that the &amp;quot;mishap&amp;quot; mentioned in the title was inadvertently overloading a magnetic antenna, causing it to break and by coincidence become an electric antenna.</text></comment>
<story><title>Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle</title><url>https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/engineers-crack-58-year-old-puzzle-way-quantum-breakthrough</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>infogulch</author><text>This is pretty interesting, if it is truly tiny and simple enough to reproduce, what impact does it have on quantum computing devices?  This example is designed for a single atom, so not applicable for multi-qbit computations, but it seems to break open the floodgates for new research into using electric fields to directly interact with quantum systems cheaply, which sounds potentially huge in my layman opinion.</text></comment>