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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. Re:That's great! by cong06 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    lol

  2. Re:Neat by jomegat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What makes you think this hasn't already happened? Maybe we're part of a big computer thats trying to answer some kind of big question or something.

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