These fridges cost $1m, but our future depends on them

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These fridges cost $1m, but our future depends on them
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Australia needs a new vision for a collaborative approach to lift our investment in R&D.

­­­On our Camperdown campus we have a number of giant fridges, each the size of a small car.

These dilution fridges are no ordinary kitchen coolers. Costing more than $1 million each, they cool the quantum devices down to barely above absolute zero, minus 273 degrees Celsius. The most powerful quantum computer in the southern hemisphere is seen at the University of Sydney Nanoscience Hub.It is just one example of the research equipment that enables tiny, miraculous findings culminating in globally significant breakthroughs.Australian university researchers are at the forefront of the quantum technology race that promises to use quantum computers to solve intractable problems in drug design, cryptography and climate modelling.

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