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Bert de Jong standing in front of a whiteboard covered in equations. A researcher in a lab crouched below a silver and gold quantum computer. They are making adjustments to the bottom edge. A scientist in a cleanroom suit, gloves, and safety glasses carefully examines a vacuum chamber, with their reflection visible in a round glass window. A colorful schematic of an exciton surfing on a red and blue wave graph. A yellow and blue isometric view of molecules is below. Dozens of droplets clustered together Four people touring the Quantum Network Facility. 2 rows of 3 scanning tunnel microscope images showing purple shapes against a dark background. A rendering in paraview of the product of the 3D reconstruction. (Credit: David Raftrey) Researcher working at a laptop. An illustration of a microchip is composited in the background. Portrait of Bert de Jong, a person with short gray hair wearing a black jacket with arms crossed over chest, smiling. This image shows the cobalt defect fabricated by the study team. The green and yellow circles are tungsten and sulfur atoms that make up a 2D tungsten disulfide sample. The dark blue circles on the surface are cobalt atoms. The lower-right area highlighted in blue-green is a hole previously occupied by a sulfur atom. The area highlighted in reddish-purple is a defect—a sulfur vacancy filled with a cobalt atom. The scanning tunneling microscope (gray) is using electric current (light blue) to measure the defect’s atomic-scale properties. A person testing electronics that are part of the experimental setup used for making qubits in silicon in a lab.