🧪 TODAY I DID THIS:

[mikelewis]

I built a system that can capture a single electron using nothing but precision-tuned electric fields—no microwaves, no superconductors, no cryogenics. Just clever physics, elegant math, and a bit of imagination.

I created a dynamically stable quantum trap, a kind of energy well that adapts to its environment, snatches an electron out of the chaos, and holds it in place—not randomly, not probabilistically, but by design.

And then I made it respond to spin.

With a subtle twist in the math, I showed that this system can recognize whether the electron’s spin is “up” or “down,” and adjust the well accordingly—getting deeper, shallower, more stable, or collapsing completely, depending on what state the electron is in.

That means this isn’t just a trap. It’s a control system. A gate. A logic switch. A building block.

It’s a working principle behind a new kind of quantum machine—but not the kind you’ve read about in headlines. This one doesn’t rely on billions of dollars in cryogenic infrastructure. This one lives where electrons already live: in circuits.

And today, it came to life in simulation.

I don't expect anyone to believe me or even understand the significance. I just wanted to note the day Analog Quantum Computing was born.