A quantum computer made from a single carbon molecule would destroy your PC

Eureka! Scientists have measured quantum energy levels within a buckyball - a spherical geomag only 60 carbon atoms big - another step towards supercharged quantum computers. Those 60 atoms are actually rather large on the molecular scale, and researchers are hoping this experimentation will one day open the door to building quantum PCs with a buckyball’s atomic building blocks acting as individual qubits. Taking on a football-like shape, a buckyball is a molecular structure made up of many carbon atoms lying at every vertex. Their real name is Buckminsterfullerene (my new jazz pseudonym) referring to their fullerene form - structures made up of carbon atoms. Other fullerenes include carbon nanotubes, an often cited ‘material of the future’, with applications for a wide-range of PC hardware components: everything from SSD cooling to CPU packaging. With the latest research from the University of Colorado and IMRA America allowing the quantum properties for each individual atom within the massive molecular structure to be analysed and measured, the way is open to one day employing a single buckyball as an entire 60-qubit quantum computer. Its network of identical carbon atoms providing the grounds for immense computational might.

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