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Published online 16 April 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/452803a

Quantum computation: The dreamweaver's abacus

Some experts think that a quantum computation could be plaited like a skein of string. And now they may have found the sorts of string they need, finds Liesbeth Venema.

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