--- title: Spooky states and figure eights: Stepping into the... description: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have designed a unique 'CPU' for quantum computing using particle... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/spooky-states-and-figure-eights-stepping-into-the-quantum-computing-ring--czgwpm18t twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Spooky states and figure eights: Stepping into the quantum computing 'ring' | daily.dev og:description: Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have designed a unique 'CPU' for quantum computing using particle... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/spooky-states-and-figure-eights-stepping-into-the-quantum-computing-ring--czgwpm18t og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/CzGWpM18T.png og:image:alt: Spooky states and figure eights: Stepping into the quantum computing 'ring' og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Spooky states and figure eights: Stepping into the quantum computing 'ring' **[Phys.org](https://daily.dev/sources/phys)** · 7 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility have designed a unique 'CPU' for quantum computing using particle accelerator technology and the concept of figure-eight-shaped rings. This approach could potentially outperform existing quantum computing prototypes and has applications in cryptography, data science, search algorithms, artificial intelligence, and more. The figure-eight rings offer long coherence times and have the potential to store a large number of qubits. The research team is on the verge of a full patent for their design. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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