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Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

Proposed Quantum Computer Consists of Billions of Electron Spins

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (26) | comments 23

(PhysOrg.com) -- While researchers have already demonstrated the building blocks for few-bit quantum computers, scaling these systems up to large quantum computers remains a challenge. One of the biggest problems ...


French physicists claim breakthrough in ultra-fast data access

Physics / General Physics

created May 31, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (31) | comments 16

French physicists said on Sunday they had used ultra-fast lasers that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.


Multiferroics -- making a switch the electric way

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...


Controllable double quantum dots and Klein tunneling in nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from the Kavli Institute of NanoScience in Delft are the first to have successfully captured a single electron in a highly tunable carbon nanotube double quantum dot. This was made possible by a new approach for ...


Quantum computing spins closer

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 19, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (35) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- The promise of quantum computing is that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers, creating uncrackable codes ...