Super-fast quantum search achieved with individual atoms

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An abstraction of two cadmium ions entangled
Researchers at the University of Michigan have been able to use a small quantum computer consisting of two atoms to do a super-fast data base search. This same system could someday be scaled to a much larger quantum computer that could outperform any conventional computer for certain applications.


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