Science Daily  February 16, 2018 To protect the quantum properties of a spin, control over its local environment, including energy relaxation and decoherence processes, is crucial. An international team of researchers (South Korea, USA – industry, Germany, Switzerland, Portugal, Spain) was able to precisely image individual iron atoms and measure and control the time that the iron atom can maintain its quantum behavior. They showed that the loss in quantum state superposition is mainly caused by nearby electrons that the researchers injected with extreme control into the iron atom. Understanding these destructive interactions allows us to avoid them in future […]