The breakthrough in silicon -- the basis of the computer chip -- has important implications for integration with existing technology, according to a team of international scientists.
The team, which comprised scientists from Britain, Japan , Canada and Germany , believe that super-fast quantum computers, based on quantum bits, called qubits, will be able to test many possible solutions to a problem at once.
Traditional computers are based on binary switches, or bits, and can only perform one task at a time.
"Creating ten billion entangled pairs in silicon with high fidelity is an important step forward for us," Dr John Morton of Oxford University was quoted as saying by Daily Mail.
"We now need to deal with the challenge of coupling these pairs together to build a scalable quantum computer in silicon," Dr Morton added.
According to scientists, quantum entanglement involves the notion that particles can be connected in such a way that changing the state of one instantly affects the other, even when they are miles apart.
