Chip Royal: How Optomechanics Tamed Thermal Noise and Turned Phonons into Error-Free Qubits
In the world of microchips, where streams of photons, quanta of light, carry information, a fundamental problem arises: light passing through matter inevitably heats it. This heating spawns thermal fluctuations — chaotic, unpredictable jostling of atoms that disrupts precise device operation.