"Spooky action at a distance" is how Albert Einstein described quantum entanglement, a weird connection between particles that classical physics cannot explain. Not too dissimilar from hosing down an irascible chihuahua, the researchers used a 'quantum bath' of light particles to entangle isolated qubits (quantum bits), the functional units of quantum computers. "By stabilizing the entangled states remotely, our approach is fully autonomous and requires no active control or measurement." In fact, this is one of the fundamental problems with quantum computing, as "decoherence" of qubits robs them of their quantum behavior and, therefore, their computational advantages. Related: The First Room-Temperature Quantum Material of Its Kind Is Spun From Atoms of GoldHowever, this is a scalable framework that can be further improved, potentially leading to increased quantum computing capabilities and expanded quantum networks.