Quantum Computing Leap Forward: Altering a Lone Electron Without Disturbing Its Neighbors This is huge because the qbits that drive this particular design of quantum computer are electrons. Isolating individual electrons gets us much closer to finding out if it will work.
Hey, I thought all the spooky quantum stuff was supposed to disappear if you scaled up higher than particles? This seems to indicate that, no, that isn’t necessarily the case. Of course, that doesn’t mean we’re going to be able to start collapsing the wave in order to win at roulette…yet.
When the world’s most powerful supercomputer goes online in 2011, it won’t come pre-installed with user-friendly software applications. Not to worry! To solve that problem, The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation will spend the next three years ramping up for the world’s first sustained petascale computational system by developing new computing software, applications and […]
A couple of interesting developments. First, there’s a quantum computing gate on a chip: After recent success in using quantum computing for superconducting qubits, researchers from Delft have formed the first Controlled-NOT quantum gate. ‘A team has demonstrated a key ingredient of such a computer by using one superconducting loop to control the information stored […]