June 25, according to media reports, recently, the Australian silicon quantum computing company SQC announced the manufacture of the world's first atomic quantum integrated circuit. The relevant papers have been published in the latest issue of the journal Nature.

This is a circuit that contains all the basic components on a classic computer chip, but the volume is on a quantum scale.

At present, the SQC team has used atomic quantum integrated circuits to accurately simulate the quantum state of a small organic polyacetylene molecule, which will help to discover and manufacture new materials.

It is worth mentioning that this also solved a difficult problem raised by Richard Feynman, a famous theoretical physicist, in 1959:If you want to understand how nature works, you must be able to control matter to be studied on the same scale as its composition.This means that matter needs to be controlled on an atomic scale.

Today, 63 years later, a team led by Michelle Simmons, a professor at the University of New South Wales and founder of SQC, confirms Feynman's conjecture and gives the answer to this puzzle.

It is understood that polyacetylene is a kind of polymer material, and its structure includes the conjugated structure of alternating single and double bonds.At present, it can be used to prepare solar cells, semiconductor materials and electroactive polymers.