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IBM Builds A Limited Quantum Computer

Posted by chrisd on from the soon-your-pgp-key-will-be-useless dept.

phr1 writes "IBM has announced and Yahoo has noted that the first working implementation of Shor's factoring algorithm. Using NMR techniques they built a seven-qubit quantum computer and factored the number 15 into the factors 3 and 5. This is by far the most complicated quantum computation ever done. It's quite an amazing feat--many people thought quantum computing was just a theoretical curiosity and Shor's algorithm could never be implemented in practice."

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  1. Small question by SonicRED · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does this mean that I can view the women of Maxim Magazine On-Line on the moleculer level?

  2. Just wait until it gets more complex by LM741N · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine having to install your Microsoft Quantum XP security patches with an NMR machine. Rob.

  3. Re:but... by MisterBlister · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the kind that tastes not entirely unlike tea, of course.

  4. Re:An Introduction... by jsse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An Introduction to to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists [lanl.gov] - Available in PDF, PostScript, and others.

    Thank you for the great article, merely by reading the title it's definitely for me.

    However, there's still far too many mathematics symbols in there which I don't understand. Do you have other articles for non-Physicists and non-Mathematics?

  5. MOD THIS UP ^...Damit! by davcorp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Come on guys... you must Mod this up!!!!

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    Gravity!... It's not just a good idea... It's the Law!
  6. quantum computing by Jeff+Hobbs · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    I can just imagine the beowulf cluster of closed boxes, each holding a cat both alive and dead in an indeterminate state.

    Somebody call PETA!

    ~jeff