German Scientists Create 5 qubit Quantum Register

CMan0 writes "In the University of Bonn, a team of scientists has built a 5 qubit register, using cesium atoms trapped by a laser-beam grid, The Register reports. They've been able to install an empty 5 bit register(i.e. all bits 0), change two of them to 1, and later read those 1s back. The next goal is to create an interaction between 2 bits. The full scientific article can be found here in PDF format."

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Lord, what's a qubit?

[lottameez]

(ala bill cosby for you oldsters). Seriously though, what scale are we talking about here?