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Super-Small Transistor Created: Artificial Atom Powered by Single Electrons

HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
edited 2011-04-20 11:16 in General Discussion
Think small :-)

Quantum computing inches closer.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110418135541.htm

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  • ctwardellctwardell Posts: 1,716
    edited 2011-04-18 13:20
    Just in time for Prop3. ;-)
  • kwinnkwinn Posts: 8,697
    edited 2011-04-18 21:02
    HollyMinkowski wrote: »
    Think small :-)

    Quantum computing inches closer.

    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110418135541.htm

    I wonder what happens when a cosmic/gamma/x-ray passes through it and how much redundancy would be needed to counteract such events.
  • ElectricAyeElectricAye Posts: 4,561
    edited 2011-04-18 21:58
    kwinn wrote: »
    I wonder what happens when a cosmic/gamma/x-ray passes through it and how much redundancy would be needed to counteract such events.

    I wondered about that, too. It seems like it would be susceptible to lots of different kinds of noise, like it would need to be sealed in a phonon-proof box immersed in liquid helium or something. But, heck, if it works as good as they say it might, maybe it would be worth the troubles?
  • HollyMinkowskiHollyMinkowski Posts: 1,398
    edited 2011-04-19 09:45
    Room temperature quantum computing is the holy grail.
    So is room temp superconductivity. (unobtanium) :-)
  • Spiral_72Spiral_72 Posts: 791
    edited 2011-04-20 11:16
    Yea, unobtanium is amazing stuff. A little known fact is it opposes both poles of a magnet... very strange. If you make a sphere out of the stuff, it always rolls to the equator.
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