Diamonds Key To Quantum Computing

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday June 7, 2008 @03:15AM from the supercomputer-in-the-rough dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Scientists P. Neumann, N. Mizuochi & co. have advanced quantum computing by finding a new method to get two-way and three-way, high quality quantum correlations that persist for hundreds or thousands of microseconds, even at room temperature. Their paper (subscription required) describes how they manipulated electrons from nitrogen vacancies in diamond using microwaves to entangle adjacent carbon-13 nuclei. Even better, this builds on previous results which indicate that diamonds with nitrogen impurities may be the key to creating useful quantum computing devices. The article provides a good description of what nitrogen vacancies are and why they prove useful."

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Nobody Gives a Shit Anymore by Anonymous Coward · 2008-06-07 08:23 · Score: 0, Troll

Has anyone noticed that people are getting tired of all this quantum computing bullshit? Most of the posts below are just making fun of it all. QC is crap. Get over it. It is a big fucking lie that just refuses to go away as long as those fraudsters keep getting funding from us suckers, i.e., the public. I wish Slashdot would stop running stories about QC anymore. Only wild-eyed Star-Trek fanatics care and they don't count. Whoever promises to slash all funding for QC gets my vote in November. LOL.