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Tiny Holes Advance Quantum Computing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-is-something dept.

Nick writes "Worldwide, scientists are racing to develop computers that exploit the quantum mechanical properties of atoms - quantum computers. One strategy for making them involves packaging individual atoms on a chip so that laser beams can read quantum data. Scientists at Ohio State University have taken a step toward the development of quantum computers by making tiny holes that contain nothing at all. The holes - dark spots in an egg carton-shaped surface of laser light - could one day cradle atoms for quantum computing."

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  1. Bright future for computing by MeanQuestion · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Looks like it will be a long, long time before computers hardware peaks.

  2. Re:Mind Boggling by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Chapter 4, the Tao Te Ching

    The Tao is an empty vessel;
    it is used, but never filled.
    Oh, unfathomable source of ten thousand things!
    --
    "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
    --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
  3. Re:Mind Boggling by EvilTwinSkippy · · Score: 0, Redundant
    Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub;
    It is the center hole that makes it useful.
    Shape clay into a vessel;
    It is the space within that makes it useful.
    Cut doors and windows for a room;
    It is the holes which make it useful.
    Therefore profit comes from what is there;
    Usefulness from what is not there.

    -- Lao Tsu, The Tao te Ching, Chapter 12
    --
    "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
    --Dr.W.Edwards Deming
  4. Re:If Schroedinger is anything to go by. . . by leonardluen · · Score: 0, Redundant

    thanks, i will check it out