Quantum Computing and Optically Controlled Electrons

eldavojohn writes "Researchers have released a new paper on quantum computing theorizing how to use optically controlled electrons to make an ultrafast quantum computer. From the article, "Scientists have designed a scheme to create one of the fastest quantum computers to date using light pulses to rotate electron spins, which serve as quantum bits. This technique improves the overall clock rate of the quantum computer, which could lead to the fastest potentially scalable quantum computing scheme of which the scientists are aware.""

Comments

Ultrfast?

[dotslashdot]

Ultrfast--so fast, there is no time for the "a". Either that, or the "a" is like Shroedinger's ct. What's the likelihood of tht?

Re:Ultrfast?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ultrfast--so fast, there is no time for the "a". Either that, or the "a" is like Shroedinger's ct. What's the likelihood of tht? Well, way to change the word by measuring it. Could have been UltrEfast, UltrIfast, UltrOfast, etc. all at once! But nooooooooooooo, you had to go and find out it's actually "Ultrafast" way to ruin it for everyone. Well, at least you've provided us with other words that we might enjoy the duality of.

Mmmmmm, that is some mutherfuckin fine duality.

Re:Ultrfast?

[Anonymous Coward]

Ultrfast: fast enough to cause spontaneous vowel movements.

Re:just imagine...

[mr_mischief]

Maybe the universe is just a Beowulf cluster of these.

I mean, hell, we use light to transmit information. We use magnets to store and transmit information. We _are_ information stored in DNA. We're could be part of a big genetic algorithm that's been running for millions of years. Maybe Agent Smith was right. Maybe we _are_ a virus, but not in the sense written into the script for the movie The Matrix. Maybe us figuring out how to store and transmit information ever more efficiently by using ever-more basic building blocks of the universe is just like a virus figuring out the system it's inside and using that information for its own purposes.

Then again, fuck it. I just wanna know if it'll run Supreme Commander at a decent speed.

Re:Still too slow...

[someone1234]

Take out the error correction and you'll get an ultrfast Vista compatible computer.

Re:Wow

[someone1234]

By the time this comes to life, real time 3d holo movie streams will be common.
So yeah, we'll need the speed.

... and the case of Missing Flux Capacitor

[unity100]

- should have read this article's title. It looks more from a movie thats a crossover between Lex Luthor finally does the superman and Back to the College Dorm 2.7

Just keep the cats out of it

[Anonymous Coward]

Or at least don't look until they are safely back out..