ytterbium

noun

yt·ter·bi·um i-ˈtər-bē-əm

: a soft metallic element of the rare-earth group that occurs especially with other rare earth elements in minerals and that has few commercial uses see Chemical Elements Table

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This system uses an isotope of ytterbium for qubits and barium ions for cooling. —

Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Its newest quantum computer uses ytterbium atoms capable of scaling to upwards of 1,200 qubits. —

Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 In plain English, that means ytterbium has only two quantum levels that can be accessed in its lowest state. —

Paul Smith-Goodson, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 Much of the work so far uses rubidium and cesium atoms, but the physicist Jeff Thompson at Princeton University prefers encoding the information in the nuclear spin states of metal atoms such as strontium and ytterbium, which have even longer coherence times. —

Philip Ball, Quanta Magazine, 25 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ytterbium