Quantum computers are way more powerful than
classical computers and that's because
they've access to special digital code that does not exist in classical computers.
We have now demonstrated, using two quantum bits inside a silicon chip,
that we can create these non-classical codes required for a functioning quantum computer.
And we have done this with the highest accuracy ever recorded.
This quantum code uses a striking
phenomenon called an entanglement.
You see, in a classical computer, you use as code, simply all the possible combinations of the bits that you have available.
But in a quantum computer, you can also write quantum superpositions of all the classical code words.
And these new code words represent an additional computing language
you can use to expand the
power of your computer.
These new code words  have no analogy in the classical world
and they are in fact, quantum entangled states.
What we did was to violate a principle called Bell's Inequality which sets a hard limit
to the amount of correlation there can be
between two classical bits.
This experiment was done using two quantum bits
the electron and the nucleus of a phosphorus atom inside a silicon electronic chip.
We first prepared both quantum bits in the 0 state.
We then put the first one in a superposition of 0
and 1.
Then, we flipped the value of the second quantum bit, conditional on the value of the first
and now the bits are entangled.
The accuracy with which we have written these quantum two-bit code words
is the highest ever achieved in any experiment
and yet, this was done using a silicon chip that is quite similar to the one you have in your normal computer.
This means we can now expand this quantum computer device
write even more complicated quantum
code words and use them to solve very hard problems
such as molecular simulations, drug
design and database search.
