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First Quantum Byte Created
gila_monster writes "Juice Enews Daily is reporting that the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information at the University of Innsbruck in Austria has created an entanglement of eight quantum particles, yielding a quantum byte or 'qubyte,' or eight qubits. The formal paper was published in the December 1 issue of Nature. A qubyte with eight ions provides a computing matrix of 65536 mostly independent elements. No word in the article about whether they were able to actually use the qubyte for computing."
"God, what's a qubit?"
The opposite of progress is congress
We need a few more before quantum porn.
Think about it..any kind of porn in one file..
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
Quickly get those tinfoil hats on!
And what would an alcoholic like yourself know about anything?
note to non-geek mods who haven't memorised every line of monty python: this is a joke
Unless that someone worked for the National Security Agency.
Not true! They'd most certainly tell their boss about it, especially when discussing future salaries and promotions.
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Let us all take a minute to reflect on all the cats who died in support of this research.
Or maybe they didn't.
"That's not a bug, that's a quantum singularity!"
Stéphane "Alias" Gallay
Now, where did I put this witty quote?..
Maybe we can finally figure out what happened to that dang cat.
But will it run Linux?
... build a Linux Box 40 Qubits in size....
EMail: 0110001101100010010000000110001101110010 0110000101111010011011100110000101110010 0010111001100011011011110110
Do we really need this? I can't imagine how anybody will have usage for more that four qubits anyway. When will the madness stop?
TC - My Photos..
"With a trap using magnetic fields they captured eight calcium ions, lined them up, and set up them in "W states" using a complicated laser technology"
Calcium again coming to the rescue to provide structure for a complex system. What would people or quantum computers be without it?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
We are qubit 7 of 8 or computing matrix 65536. We will will add your cryptographic and entangled distinctivenes to our own. We are the qubyte. Resistance is uncertain.
I was born in 1983, but now I can re-experience even advances in computing that happened in the seventies and before! Cabinet-sized hard-drives that hold a couple of megabytes? Quantum computing is at A FEW QUBITS! I doubt many people here lived through the ENIAC (and realized what it meant at the time), but that's exactly what my grandchildren will be hearing from me. Granson, back in my day we had EIGHT QUBITS! Not qubytes, QUBITS, sonny boy, eight of 'em. Like this: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Total. And that was state of the art. It was a research demonstration! And we liked it!
"There is a world market for 4, maybe 5 quantum computers."
"512 kiloqubytes outta' be enough for anybody!"
Etc, etc, etc. WHOOOHOO!!! I was there at ground zero, baby!!! In ought six!!!!
What do you mean ought-six, grandpa? "I mean 2006, granson".
"Whoa! When were you born?"
"I was born in the LAST MILENNIUM, GRANSON"
"Did they have cars?"
"Just road ones."
"What about Google?"
"yeah, but it wasn't like today. Man I wish I'd have held on to that stock tho'..."
Actually, there was an announcement, but they used their qubit to crack your ssh key in five seconds and deleted it from your email.
They probably felt that 7 wasn't enough and 9 was too many.
sic transit gloria mundi
Yours has been off?
I guess they produced an eigenstate of the atom number operator, therefore they should be quite certain.
That of course depends on what they are made of
I just looked: It is dead. However, now I have problems with PETA activists from Copenhagen who claim I killed the cat by looking
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Yes, but I thought it was rather unrealistic. Any self-respecting cryptologic organization would give the young man a security clearance and let him work his magic. If they really think he's a threat, their best bet would be to lock him in one of those windowless buildings and make him check his email 500 times a day. That'll destroy him mentally faster than a lobotomy.
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The extranous bit(s) are evil of course.
When do we get an Improbability Drive?
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
> I think we can be sure that if somebody had unlocked the secret of quantum computing there's a chance they'd say so at some point.
Ha. Very funny, in a dead/alive-cat sense.
Of course, they can't tell or else the whole thing will stop working... in a way, they've outdone the cold fusion team.
Well done!
very, very enlightening. not that i understood at all what you said, but now i understand perfectly how my dad feels when i explain the PC on his desk
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