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by lightweightbaby 759 days ago
These kind of atom-like systems can be used as registers for a quantum computer. They allow you to store a qubit and apply gates to that qubit. It doesn’t make practical sense to use it to improve classical storage, although it actually can pack more information than a classical bit using “superdense coding” [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding