Phys.org  May 20, 2020 Building on the their 2017 demonstration of quantum control of a molecule, a team of researchers in the US (NIST, University of Colorado) successfully entangled two energy levels of a calcium atomic ion with two different pairs of rotational states of a calcium hydride molecular ion, which is a calcium ion bonded to a hydrogen atom. The molecular qubit had a transition frequency—the speed of cycling between two rotational states—of either low energy at 13.4 kilohertz (kHz, thousands of cycles per second) or high energy at 855 billion cycles per second (gigahertz or GHz). Molecules could […]