IBM hasn't been the only people working on this. The idea has been around for quite some time with many novel approaches coming about as a result of all the man hours of research dumped into this. Ideas have been proposed that use a single complex hydrocarbon where the coupled spin states of carbon and hydrogen within the molecule are used as the q-bits. The idea isn't necessarily limited to specific atoms in specific places as much as it is to having quantum bodies with definite coupled states. Nonetheless, a working quantum computer is a phenomenal feat. Perhaps even the biggest experimental development this millenia =oP
Slashdot Mirror
IBM hasn't been the only people working on this. The idea has been around for quite some time with many novel approaches coming about as a result of all the man hours of research dumped into this. Ideas have been proposed that use a single complex hydrocarbon where the coupled spin states of carbon and hydrogen within the molecule are used as the q-bits. The idea isn't necessarily limited to specific atoms in specific places as much as it is to having quantum bodies with definite coupled states. Nonetheless, a working quantum computer is a phenomenal feat. Perhaps even the biggest experimental development this millenia =oP