2022年，台灣第一部量子科幻影集《Q18》正式開拍，這是由張慶瑞教授與黃琮暐教授擔任科學指導，由鴻海科技集團、金禾創意與文策院共同投資的台灣第一部量子科幻影集。全劇預計共十集，每集一小時，將於2023年底於國際影音傳流平台首播。本劇長達兩年時間的編劇、一年半的籌資與籌備，又歷經數波疫情干擾，以及2022通膨的考驗，終於在2022年七月順利開拍，並於十月中旬殺青。全劇囊括台灣重要一線演員，有：炎亞綸、金士傑、天心、宥勝、李銘順、李千那、石知田、劉修甫、趙逸嵐、田士廣、盧以恩…等等，透過超強卡司的演出，以及引人入勝的劇情，量子力學的世界觀將以最通俗的方式，介紹給普羅大眾眼前。

Progress towards the realization of quantum computers requires persistent advances in their constituent building blocks—qubits. Novel qubit platforms that simultaneously embody long coherence, fast operation and large scalability offer compelling advantages in the construction of quantum computers and many other quantum information systems. Electrons, ubiquitous elementary particles of non-zero charge, spin and mass, have commonly been perceived as paradigmatic local quantum information carriers. Despite superior controllability and configurability, their practical performance as qubits through either motional or spin states depends critically on their material environment. In this talk, I will present our experimental realization of a new qubit platform based on isolated single electrons trapped on an ultraclean solid neon surface in vacuum. By integrating an electron trap in a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture, we achieve strong coupling between the motional states of a single electron and a single microwave photon in an on-chip superconducting resonator [1]. Qubit gate operations and dispersive readout are successfully implemented. Our latest measurements show that both the relaxation time T₁ and coherence time T₂ have reached 100-microsecond scale [2]. The observed single-shot readout fidelity, without using a quantum-limited amplifier, is already 94.4%. Simultaneous strong coupling of two qubits with the microwave resonator is also demonstrated, as a first step toward two-qubit entangling gates for universal quantum computing. These results manifest that the electron-on-solid-neon (eNe) charge qubits have outperformed all the existing charge qubits to date and rivaled the state-of-the-art superconducting transmon qubits.

[1] X. Zhou … and D. Jin, “Single electrons on solid neon as a solid-state qubit platform”, Nature 605, 46–50 (2022).

[2] X. Zhou … and D. Jin, “Electron charge qubits on solid neon with 0.1 millisecond coherence time”, manuscript submitted (2022).