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New Idea Could Lead to Quantum RAM

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the cat-not-included dept.

KentuckyFC writes to tell us that scientists in Italy and the US have designed a new method of retrieving information from quantum memory that could allow them to create "Quantum RAM". "Giovannetti's idea is to send the address down the branching tree of connections in such a way that it only affects one switch at a time. The first address qubit sets a switch at the first branching point to go one way or the other; the second qubit is sent that way and sets the switch at the next branching point, and so on. The total number of entangled quantum systems is smaller, and they are not so susceptible to interference, allowing information to be retrieved from memory intact."

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  1. Quantum porn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    [Guy 1] Hey, I had porn loaded into memory

    [Guy 2] You changed it by looking at it!

  2. I don't see it on NewEgg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    How else will be I be able to add it to my gaming rig. Do you think this memory has lights on it? I hope so, and that'd look great through my case's side-windows.

  3. Re:binary trees by Reverend528 · · Score: 5, Funny

    could this be used to implement extremely efficient binary trees?
    Yes and no.
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  4. Re:talk about density by unfunk · · Score: 5, Funny

    atomic-scale memory would create huge waves.
    Yes, but they'd collapse into particles as soon as you look at 'em...