AdvertisementTo This Agency, There's Only One Way To Operate: PreciselyOctober 09, 2012Jordan G. TeicherfacebookEmailNIST physicist and Nobel Prize-winner David Wineland adjusts an ultraviolet laser beam used to manipulate ions in a high-vacuum apparatus containing an "ion trap." These devices have been used to demonstrate the basic operations required for a quantum computer. (National Institute of Standards and Technology)