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First 'Quantum Computer Chips' Demonstrated
holy_calamity writes "The first quantum computer chips have been made by two US groups, New Scientist reports. Both NIST and Yale have demonstrated chips where information was transferred between two superconducting qubits using a 'quantum bus'. The bus is made from a cavity that traps a single microwave photon as a standing wave — the NIST group also managed to use the bus to store data from one qubit for a short time. 'After encoding information in one qubit, they transferred it into the cavity for 10 nanoseconds before transferring it to the other qubit. Yale's chip used qubits around 1-micron square built on silicon, while NIST used larger 10-square-micron qubits on top of sapphire. In both prototypes, the bus between the qubits was between five and seven millimeters long.'"
maybe I'm first, maybe I'm not.
Is it just me, or do you hate it when people say "Is it just me..."?
Must...Not...Imagine....Beowulf...Cluster....
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Howdy. I don't claim to understand all of this. However, the more I read, the more I am convinced the universe makes no sense. I am waiting for the guy who is dreaming all of this to wake up and for all of us to stop existing.
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I was going to tell you, but I changed the outcome by reading it!
Well, back to rejecting software patent applications.
... but will it run Linux? (Or will it run and not run Linux at the same time?)
You can't know how many cats wide it is or fast it is until you transfer data over it.
A few thousandths of a degree above square zero. Progress!
I work in a physics lab, and a few days ago the unimaginable happened.
A quantum experiment had gone horribly wrong, going completely out of control and destroying itself in the process.
The devastation was unimaginable.
All that was left of the experiment was a crater, almost a nanometre across.
As soon as we get the electron microscope on it, I'll have more details of what went wrong.
But enven if you find the right key with this method, you can't use it because it would change the key the file was encrypted with.
change the outcome of the story?
Let me be the first to say:
WOOT! Now we can finally run Vista.
Yeah, the SAT problem just keeps getting worse. I don't think it will ever be solved.
I'm pretty sure the IT department in my office has done this many many times. I keep hearing whispers of pulling out all the "Cat 3" that's been "running behind our walls". What happened to the first two cats? And how did Cat 3 escape? We've hired a group of what looks like construction guys, who must really be specialist exterminators because their job is "get rid of any trace of Cat 3". Hmm, I wonder what my company is trying to hide? I overheard my boss tell them that he wants to replace it with "Cat 5". It must be a very stealthy cat, because it's going to "go into every cubicle and every office"! Those strange exterminators suggested "Cat 6", but my boss rejected the idea, saying the Cat 6's plastic core made it very difficult to work with. Now, while I'm already concerned with the idea of zombie ninja cats prowling the office, I certainly will not stand for *bionic* zombie ninja cats!
Solomon
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang