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Team Constructs Silicon 2-qubit Gate, Enabling Construction of Quantum Computers (phys.org)
monkeyzoo writes: A team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney has made a crucial advance in quantum computing. Their advance, appearing in the journal Nature (abstract), demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate — the central building block of a quantum computer — and, significantly, did it in silicon. This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry. Until now, it had not been possible to make two quantum bits 'talk' to each other — and thereby create a logic gate — using silicon. But the UNSW team — working with Professor Kohei M. Itoh of Japan's Keio University — has done just that for the first time. The result means that all of the physical building blocks for a silicon-based quantum computer have now been successfully constructed, allowing engineers to finally begin the task of designing and building a functioning quantum computer.
We done got fucked out of good publicly available encryption for decades at least. The beast won. Resistance is futile.
what the meaning of life is.
How much closer they are to a Beowulf cluster of these...
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
So if all these problems are solved why are they wasting their time publishing a paper instead of taking over the world?
in case you need 0,1,2 or 3 factored really, reaaly fast.
Science, huh?