Quantum Computing Breakthrough in Japan

An anonymous reader writes "A research team funded by NEC and RIKEN, Japan's Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, are the first to demonstrate a Controlled NOT (CNOT) quantum gate. The CNOT gate when coupled with a rotational gate would create a universal gate. The universal gate would be the basis for quantum computing. ETA for the first quantum computers: 10 to 100 years." When quantum computers first come to fruition, the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day."

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I'm working on my own quantum computer

[Dancin_Santa]

But that's really neither here nor there.

Re:A couple of Thoughts

[Anonymous Coward]

This black hole brought to you by Microsoft!

"And you thought we sucked before!"

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actually, no. the universe doesnt crash.. least not yet..

Re:Quantum Computers

[00420]

Then again, if you chart processor and memory usage, you will find that nothing will run Windows 2015

At least call it by its proper codename. It's called Longhorn, not Windows 2015

They're fixing them?

[The Munger]

When quantum computers first come to fruition, the best part will be reminiscing about how terrible computers were "back in the day."

No, they'll still be terrible. They'll just be terrible really quickly.