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Diamonds Key To Quantum Computing
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."
How nice now... The first quantum computer on the market will have to use diamonds.... So what will that mean? A $8 million price tag?
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So now diamonds are a supercomputer's best friend?
The whole notion isn't that different from doped silicon.
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Well I'm not sure about that, but there is an interesting co-incidence here, silicon is in the 4th group, and so is diamond(carbon).
electrical(electronics) computers -> silicon
Quantum computers -> Diamonds (carbon)
we need to add impurities to silicon to get it to work the way we want it, these guys are adding impurities to carbon to get it to act the way they want.
The resemblance may be superficial but it is there, nature is symmetric after all.
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Natural diamonds are much more abundant than they'd have you believe. There's an artificial scarcity. Large, high quality diamonds are pretty rare, but there are plenty of small ones (enough to make tools out of them, and enough that diamond jewelery has next to no resale value.) The markup on new diamonds is huge and the supply chain is narrow.
Anyhow, isn't this whole thing the plot of the First Wave episode "The Apostles"? Except possibly without aliens? And probably fewer biker gangs?
Science should be done with free, open sharing of the results, so that anyone, anywhere, can read the details and possibly come up with the next idea.
These subscription journals are holding back science.
The service of organizing peer-review is logically independent
of whether something is in a limited distribution paid, paper
journal. Sell google ads on the things if you must, dammit.
I know its a bit offtopic but it pisses me off royally.
Science is above all else about building shared knowledge.
Period. If you're putting your findings behind firewalls,
you are harming science.
Where are we going and why are we in a handbasket?
...am looking forward to quantum computing. This way, my system files on Windows will both have a rootkit and not have a rootkit at the same time!
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As much as it's a cartel and as much as logic says otherwise, I'd easily get a diamond ring if she was so inclined. Believe it or not, for many that is as much a part of the marriage ceremony as the white dress, wows and all that. "A diamond is forever" is quite frankly probably the single best marketing slogan in history. There's rubies and saphires and emeralds and many other gemstones, but it placed diamonds in a category of its own and at the same time it exploits your own insecurity. No matter how much you think this is marketing BS from de Beers, she might not. Unless you're really, really sure she won't think you're cheap or sending subliminal messages or whatnot I'd just get the ring and eat that feeling of having been suckered. There's a time and place to take your battles in a marriage, and I think de Beers know damn well they picked one of those where it's not.
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I just can't see spending the rest of my life with someone who is that susceptible to advertising. Even if she's physically attractive, that much dumb strikes me as being a worse kind of ugly.
If you google search hard enough, you can usually find these papers free of charge from the originating university, either in the author's own website, or from a departmental archive.
I'm at an university, and even with a free Athens login from the campus library, our university still doesn't have a subscription to one or two of these companies. Basically, the subscription managers at the library will get a free trial or purchase a 1 years license with one of these companies. If enough papers are referenced, then the subscription is maintained, otherwise it is dropped.
Many research fields form their own cliques where they reference each others papers, and none from anybody else. If you are not in this clique, then it isn't worth taking out a subscription to that journal.
Fortunately, it is possible to get the jist of an unreadable paper by reading the descriptions from other papers.
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as much a part of the marriage ceremony as the white dress, wows and all that.
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