How are quantum bits implememted?

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Its very easy to pull a logic gate or transistor circuit of the internet for example and begin to understand how it represents physical bits, by either having 5V across the circuit or below 3.3V. But I was wondering what are some of the methods for representing qubits from a hardware perspective.

I have already looked on Wikipedia and find the explanation to be very abstract and vague.

Thanks
 
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This wiki article has a table of implementations halfway into the article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit

see the Physical Representation section.

Here's a discussion of the IBM quantum computing web interface:

https://solutiondesign.com/blog/-/blogs/quantum-computing

I couldn't find a pictorial article on the various qubit systems though.

I found this powerpoint discussion which talks about one such system and superposition:

http://www.slideshare.net/rushmila/quantum-computing-introduction?next_slideshow=1
 
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