“Our latest work increases the precision of the fabrication process,” Moheimani said. “We realized that we could actually use this method to remove hydrogen atoms in a controlled fashion. The researchers were working on their solution to the STM tip-crash problem when they discovered a more precise method for manipulating the surface atoms. “We realized that we could actually use this method to remove hydrogen atoms in a controlled fashion,” Moheimani said. The fact that a qubit can represent two numbers at the same time allows the quantum computer to process information much faster.