Transistor Made From Bose-Einstein Condensate
holy_calamity writes "US researchers have made a transistor from a Bose-Einstein condensate. They claim it to be the first step towards 'atomic circuits' that run with atoms instead of electrons. 'A small number of atoms can be used to control the flow of a large number of atoms, in much the same way that an FET uses a gate voltage to control a large electric current,' says lead research Alex Zozulya. The abstract of their paper is freely available."
Given that electrons are so much smaller (and hence faster) than atoms, wouldn't this lead to slow circuits? What is the advantage of use atoms in place of electrons?
Behold, Quantum computing is at hand!
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TFA said "could be made" not "made"
Fscking slashtards
Transistor Made From Bose-Einstein Condensate
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More physics, more chemistry...
Electrons are areas of probability density for energy.
Photons are discrete packets of energy.
Energy is related to mass, most commonly, as E=mc^2.
In conventional circuits there is a signal passed by energy. That energy is passed in bulk as the movement of electricity, or the flux of the electron fields around the atoms which make up the conducting wire.
If one could deal in smaller amounts of energy--say the quanta required to excite an electron from one energy level to the next--then one is dealing arguably in portions of electrons. Arguably.
It's the same principle as the recent research using fiberobtic materials for processor fabrication. If one uses light, rather than electricity, then friction is minimized, energy lost to heat is minimized, and the bulk signal of photon flux can be modulated more quickly than the bulk signal of electron flux.
E=mc^2. It's all the same. You can pass bowling balls or you can pass bee-bees.
the NPG electrode was replaced with carbon blac
Why the obsession with making stuff with dead people concentrates?
Bose Einstein? I bet that's one mighty expensive (and vastly underperforming) transistor radio...
This guy's the limit!
I knew my Einstein-Rosen-Podolsky bridge machine was missing something! Computer circuits powered by Einstein-Bose Condensate! It's so simple! With this new invention, I'll be able to communicate with the machine back on my world, but never (for reasons yet unknown to science) tell it to retrieve me!
Hmm. That could be a problem. I better remember to set the timer...
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To form a Bose Einstein Condensate, the atoms must be cooled to a fraction of 0 degrees Kelvin. How could this ever be used in a practical application?
Yeah, but can you overclock it?
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That it would be much more stable would it not? I don't know what kind of power usage it would be, and to hazard a guess, its probably not an improvement, I think they would have mentioned it. But, it might be a more reliable option, in the sense that it might be more resistant to electric surges, from say a lightning storm or something along those lines. I can't see it becoming a consumer level product, but for more specialized purposes.
http://dwave.wordpress.com/2007/01/24/on-its-way-t o-5mk/
I bet they use something similar...
Paul B.
Although this might not be terribly usefull for computation, if atomic scale digital logic flow control can be perfected, it might be possible to use it for something far cooler than drexlers nanotechnological assemblers... something more akin to star trek 'replicators' (albeit at near absolute zero)... digitally controlled control of the position of single atoms could revolutionize manufacturing... wouldn't it be funny if the only way we ever manage to achieve the manufacturing precision to make a nanotech assembler would be via a technology that completely obsoletes it!
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Anyone read Chris Moriarty's "Spin State?"
It addresses practical applications (in a fictionalized way) of Bose-Einstein Condensates.
A good read, too.
Regarding the Bose-Einstein condensate.
Maybe finally someone will find explanation for Bose Nova phenomenon:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosenova
It's like small thermonuclear explosion and seems like good explanation of all that Cold Fusion stuff:
http://www.lenr-canr.org/
They give the abstract away, but you have to pay for anything worth reading.
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http://atomchip.com/
What does Einstein's preference for speakers and headphones have to do with it? He's dead, he can't hear anything!
... what a great name for a microbrew in the right high tech community.
RTFA Much?
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Build your computer on Pluto. Then you only need to cool the thing a few K from ambient temperature.
I recall one old saying "Remember your nanoseconds..."
Nanoseconds was meaning the time it takes for an electrical impulse to travel down 12 inches of low-resistance (for that time,) copper wire. This was a female Admiral in the Navy, responsible for Fortran, IIRC.
So electrons travel that slow? Which particle travels that fast to allow near-instant current, if not the electron? I'm really curious, as this has always stumped me.
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"You can pass bowling balls or you can pass bee-bees." Given what I've passed from my kidneys, I'll stick with the bee-bees, TYVM!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
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