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Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record

Posted by timothy on from the whiffs-of-ephemera dept.

eldavojohn writes "It's often assumed that representing data reaches a limit when you get to the point that an atom represents one bit in some form or fashion. But Stanford University researchers have used a quantum hologram model to store the characters 'S' and 'U' by encoding the data at a rate of 35 bits per electron."

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  1. They did... how much?? by w0mprat · · Score: 4, Informative

    35 bits per electron?! This kind of resets a few common assumptions about how much data can be stored in matter. Feynman was right.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom

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  2. High School Science? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It's obvious you can store more than one bit per electron, since electrons can have more than two energy levels.

  3. Re:How much data? by textstring · · Score: 3, Informative

    35 bits is about 4x10^-13 LoC's, taking 1 LoC = 10TB.
    so, you could fit the entire library of congress in about 9x10^-12 grams of copper.

  4. Re:versus USB by ConanG · · Score: 2, Informative

    Or the 16 GB microSDHC cards. The 32GB ones are just around the corner.