Introduction
Quantum computers today are engineering marvels, but they come with extreme requirements—most notably, the need for ultra-low temperatures. Conventional explanations say this is to reduce thermal noise and protect delicate entangled quantum states from environmental interference.
But what if quantum coherence isn’t actually fragile? What if it’s structural—and all we need is a material where the atomic geometry itself provides coherence without needing isolation, entanglement correction, or near-zero temperatures?
Using Stein Theory, we propose exactly that: a quantum computing substrate based on solid lithium-6 (Li-6), which achieves coherence through neutron–neutron face-locking, not electron dynamics. And because this mechanism doesn’t rely on excited electron states, no supercooling is required.
How It Works — The Neutron Face-Locking Mechanism
In Stein Theory, all matter and forces emerge from the deterministic spin geometry of two-dimensional spinning disks called steins. These steins interact through spin vector alignment and overlap within their Cylinders of Influence (COIs). When aligned just right, two steins—or two structures made of many steins—can face-lock: they remain in fixed orientation relative to each other, producing stable, quantised configurations. Face-locking is the basis of quantum entanglement (in stein theory), and entanglement of two particles (including photons) is maintained as long as they stay face-locked, allowing instantaneous connection at any distance).
In atomic systems, face-locking explains the Lamb shift, where an electron in the 2s orbital is locked by the internal geometry of the proton. But Stein Theory reveals that the main cause of that lock is the proton’s internal stein column—(though its positron triangle triplet helps to initialise the lock) locking to all three triangles in the 2S electron. The massive, rigid spin field of the column imposes stability through face-locking, essentially ‘clamping’ the electron into place instead of its triangles spinning on orthogonal axes as they normally would.
In neutrons, exactly the same internal stein column exists as in the proton, but with an electron triplet assembly on the opposite side of the column from the positron balancing the charge to zero, hence a neutron. With one proton face-locked to each electron, the neutron column can still lock to other neutron columns in neighbouring atoms in both directions (axially), and maintain spin alignment across atoms in a lattice.
Now consider a solid crystal of Li-6, which has:
3 protons (each paired with an electron—irrelevant here),
And 3 neutrons per nucleus.
These three neutrons can each face-lock with adjacent neutrons along one spatial axis:
Neutron A locks left/right (x)
Neutron B locks forward/back (y)
Neutron C locks up/down (z)
Because face-locking is bidirectional and geometrically rigid, the crystal becomes fully locked in all three spatial dimensions—a true 3D spin-synchronised structure. Each neutron is face-locked to two others, helping enormously to keep alignment and maintain coherence.
Why Li-6 Works (and Li-7 Doesn’t)
You might expect that Li-7, with four neutrons, would be even better. But that’s not the case. In fact, the extra neutron in Li-7 has no face-locking role—it can’t add coherence in a three-dimensional lattice already fully locked by three neutrons.
Worse, that extra neutron is free-floating in spin geometry, potentially introducing phase drift or angular noise into the otherwise rigid lattice. So while Li-7 may be stable as a nucleus, it’s less suitable as a coherence substrate for quantum computing.
In contrast, Li-6 uses all three of its neutrons efficiently—each one stabilising the lattice across a spatial axis, with no leftovers and no internal drift.
Why Supercooling Isn’t Needed
Unlike most quantum computers, this design does not rely on electron orbitals or their spin states. It doesn’t care whether electrons are excited or even present in coherent superpositions.
All the quantum behaviour is controlled by the geometric spin alignment of the neutron columns—structures that are:
Not electromagnetically active,
Not easily disturbed by thermal motion, and
Already stable at room temperature or higher.
As long as the lattice is formed and the nuclei remain stationary in their lattice sites, the neutron–neutron face-locks will persist. That means:
No orbital excitation to worry about,
No electron-related Lamb shift to preserve,
And no decoherence via thermal or electromagnetic noise.
In Stein terms: the neutrons are locked into place by geometry alone. No supercooling is required. Supercooling would however enable to electron-proton face-locking to be maintained too, and that would essentially give another channel of quantum coherence, which might allow dual computing. So there should be no need to supercool to get neutronic entanglement, but additional electron-proton entanglement would also be achieved if it is supercooled.
A New Class of Quantum Materials
This model gives us the world’s first blueprint for a deterministic, decoherence-resistant, face-locked quantum crystal—built from a cheap, stable, light-element material that doesn’t need extreme infrastructure.
In this model:
Qubit states may be defined by the number and direction of active face-locks within each Li-6 nucleus. Logic operations involve selectively unlocking one, two, or all three neutron axes using directional NMR pulses.
Logic operations could involve rotational nudges or COI gate switching between rows of locked nuclei, but that would require advanced stein engineering so at best is far future.
Memory would be stable over arbitrarily long timescales—limited only by external interference, not internal instability.
Recent insights suggest that by aligning NMR pulses along the lattice axes of the Li-6 crystal, we can selectively break face-locks in only one spatial direction at a time. By tuning the intensity of the NMR field, we can release one, two, or all three neutrons from their locked states—producing 8 distinct configurations per atom.
Even more powerfully, if we direct finely focused NMR beams at specific regions of the crystal, we can control logic zones independently. This allows us to build a large quantum substrate with many separately addressable regions, each holding multiple bits of information and operating at room temperature. A large Li crystal could have many regions.
In this model, neutron-state programming becomes directional, regional, and fully deterministic. The result is a self-synchronising, decoherence-resistant, geometrically programmed quantum system, built not from abstract quantum states but from physical geometry itself.
Summary
Li-6, under Stein Theory, may be the perfect quantum computing substrate:
Stable,
Cheap,
Non-toxic,
And requiring no supercooling, because it stores and processes quantum information through neutron-based geometric face-locking, not fragile entangled states.
This isn’t quantum mysticism—it’s spin geometry, anchored in a deterministic universe. Where others see probabilistic collapse, Stein Theory shows rigid lattice synchrony.
With this foundation, we may no longer need fragile QCs at all. Just crystals that know how to hold themselves together.