In a new breakthrough, a team of researcher have claimed that they have been able to manipulate the quantum bits at room temperatures.

Earlier, the temperatures near zero Kelvin were required for allowing any changes in quantum bits. Andrew Dzurak of the University of New South Wales along with his colleagues Jason Petta from Princeton University, David Awschalom of the University of Chicago, Lee Basset of the University of California-Santa Barbara, and Evelyn Hu of Harvard University on the new breakthrough on quantum behaviour for computing and other applications.

The new breakthrough was achieved due to the new diamond-based materials that allow quantum bits to be manipulated at room temperatures. Dzurak's team of researchers had been able to control the quantum bits for several seconds in 2010. A very pure form of silicon has been developed that allows researchers to control the spin. They used pure silicon-28 to display control of spin in billions of electrons for several seconds.

The researchers are now working to develop ways to transmit quantum information to long distances and increase the number of quantum bits to hundreds.