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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 ...


Scientists Extend the Lifetime of Quantum Memory

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created Jan 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Storing and sending information using quantum phenomena is one of the hottest areas of research today; scientists across the globe are investigating how to make quantum communication possible for real-life ...


Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication

Long-Lasting Quantum Memory Leads to Long-Distance Quantum Communication

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created Oct 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (54) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have taken a step closer to realizing long-distance quantum communication, in which a quantum state is transferred from one location to another by becoming entangled with a traveling ...


Quantum memory and turbulence in ultra-cold atoms

Quantum memory and turbulence in ultra-cold atoms

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created Jul 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists at MIT have figured out a key step toward the design of quantum information networks. The results are reported in the July 20th issue of Physical Review Letters and highlighted in APS's on-line journa ...





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Operating quantum memory at room temperature

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created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (42) | comments 0

Quantum dots, along with quantum wires, have been attracting notice over the past decade as possible building blocks of quantum information processing. Indium arsenide quantum dots (InAs) can be used for memory operations ...


Quantum leap in hi-tech performance

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created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 1

For years, physicists have been heralding the revolutionary potential of using quantum mechanics to build a new generation of supercomputers, unbreakable codes, and ultra-fast and secure communication networks.


Fock states could hold clues to quantum memory components

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created Dec 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- “Fock states will play a role in the future of quantum computing,” Andrew Cleland tells PhysOrg.com. “We have completed the first experimental measurement of the time decay of Fock states in a superconducting quantu ...


Researchers Demonstrate Quantum Teleportation and Memory in Tandem

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created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (104) | comments 14

In research that may be a key step toward real-life quantum communication—the transmission of information using atoms, photons, or other quantum objects—researchers created an experiment in which a quantum bit of information ...


Ultra-Fast Quantum-Dot Information Storage

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created Mar 21, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (95) | comments 8

The information-storage market is dominated by two main types: Flash memory, used in memory sticks and cell phones, and dynamic random access memory (DRAM), which is the main memory in a personal computer. Both types have ...


Is quantum Internet search on the way?

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created May 06, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (39) | comments 2

In classical computing, random access memory (RAM) is needed to make things “work.” But it is subject to a certain level of energy loss. But what if you could create low-energy quantum access memory (QRAM) that would not ...


Turning 'funky' quantum mysteries into computing reality

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created Feb 16, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (39) | comments 0

The strange world of quantum mechanics can provide a way to surpass limits in speed, efficiency and accuracy of computing, communications and measurement, according to research by MIT scientist Seth Lloyd.


Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

Physicists find way to control individual bits in quantum computers

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created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have overcome a hurdle in quantum computer development, having devised a viable way to manipulate a single "bit" in a quantum processor without ...


World's Smallest Storage Space ... the Nucleus of an Atom

Memoirs of a qubit: Hybrid memory solves key problem for quantum computing

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created Oct 22, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (56) | comments 5

An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum ...


Lasers can lengthen quantum bit memory by 1,000 times

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Physicists have found a way to drastically prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum computers.



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