Atomistic quantum dots

A method for quantum computation comprising:

• placing an electrostatic species in proximity to a plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds so as to perturb an electronic state of said plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds of a material with each of said plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds having a separation from the remainder of said plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds of at least one atom of said material;
• providing a first logic input as a power source to perturb a dangling bond from amongst said plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds so as to perturb an electronic state of said plurality of controllably quantum mechanically coupled dangling bonds;
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• monitoring a coupled dangling bond electronic state responding to said perturbed dangling bond of an infinite set of superpositioned values intermediate between digital logic levels of 0 and 1.