Research Team Makes Quantum Computing Progress

Timogen writes to tell us Wired is reporting that a research team is reporting that they have found a way to "controllably couple qubits" bringing us one step closer to quantum computing. "In classical computer science, bits -- or binary digits -- hold data encoded as ones and zeros. In quantum computing, data is measured in qubits, or quantum bits. As such, a qubit can have three possible states -- one, zero or a "superposition" of one and zero. This unique property theoretically makes quantum computing able to solve large-scale calculations that would dwarf today's supercomputers. But qubits in isolation are not very useful. It's only when they can be connected to one another that large-scale processing becomes possible."

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[The Living Fractal]

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Kid: I really couldn't say! The site was caught in superposition.
Mom: Don't take that tone with me! What is that, some new porno move?
Kid: No, I swear, it's...
Mom: Go to your room!
Kid: But Mom!!!
Mom: I said GO!

TLF