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Tiny Holes Advance Quantum Computing

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. first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    1. Re:first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post:D