Before the measurements, researchers mixed bioplastic powder, such as long-chain aliphatic polyesters (LCAP), into forest soil where microbes digest natural polymers such as cellulose.
The company’s latest hardware, called Helios, rotates the ions around a ring, selectively shifting the appropriate ones into one of two arms where measurements and operations of the ions’ quantum states can be performed using lasers.
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