Skibereen
27-08-2004, 14:18
I posted about this in the "New Physics" thread which was kind of a Highjack so I started A new thread.
I posted about break throughs in the construction of a quantum computer.
I however didnt have any articles to back what I had been hearing.
I dont have any net links so I am going to type up the popsci article snipit on the subject.
Please keep in mind I am not colloege educated I only know what I have read on the subject of quantum mechanics.
Experimental Physics
Atoms Beam Up!!
Scientists teleport atomic particles and push quantum computing closer to reality.
The Vulcan ears of Star trek fans perked up this summer when two research teams announced that they had successfully performed teleportation.
But the scientists hadnt beamed william shatner to pluto(alas): their feat was solid-particle quantum teleportation, which doesnt transport matter itself but instead transmits the quantum state of a single atom to another atom without a direct link between the two. This, experts say, is a breakthrough in the march toward the first quantum computer, a still theoretical machine that could take seconds to crunch the same numbers that todays best processors chew on for years.
Quantum teleportation---the instant tranmission of information--is conducted through a phenomenon called entanglement, the mysterious connection between paired particles in which a change in one particle instantly causes the same change in the other, reguardless of the distance between them. The experiments which took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) Boulder, Colorado and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, used three ions and one set of entangled particles to transfer the quatum state of the third with help from the second.
Scientists at the CIT demonstrated quantum teleportation of light photons several years ago, but this is the first time solid matter has been beamed.
The latest success is "a major step forward," says Carl Williams, Cheif of NIST's atomic physics division. The end result-in perhaps 25 years, Williams says-might be a type of computer that replacestraditional binary bits(1s and 0s) with qubits(quantum bits), which would transmit and process data using entanglement instead of circuts.
A mere 80 entangled qubits will pack an immpossible 151 trillion gigabytes of processing power--roughly correlated, 2.3 trillion times then todays best 64-bit architecture.--Joshua Tompkins
I posted about break throughs in the construction of a quantum computer.
I however didnt have any articles to back what I had been hearing.
I dont have any net links so I am going to type up the popsci article snipit on the subject.
Please keep in mind I am not colloege educated I only know what I have read on the subject of quantum mechanics.
Experimental Physics
Atoms Beam Up!!
Scientists teleport atomic particles and push quantum computing closer to reality.
The Vulcan ears of Star trek fans perked up this summer when two research teams announced that they had successfully performed teleportation.
But the scientists hadnt beamed william shatner to pluto(alas): their feat was solid-particle quantum teleportation, which doesnt transport matter itself but instead transmits the quantum state of a single atom to another atom without a direct link between the two. This, experts say, is a breakthrough in the march toward the first quantum computer, a still theoretical machine that could take seconds to crunch the same numbers that todays best processors chew on for years.
Quantum teleportation---the instant tranmission of information--is conducted through a phenomenon called entanglement, the mysterious connection between paired particles in which a change in one particle instantly causes the same change in the other, reguardless of the distance between them. The experiments which took place at the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST) Boulder, Colorado and at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, used three ions and one set of entangled particles to transfer the quatum state of the third with help from the second.
Scientists at the CIT demonstrated quantum teleportation of light photons several years ago, but this is the first time solid matter has been beamed.
The latest success is "a major step forward," says Carl Williams, Cheif of NIST's atomic physics division. The end result-in perhaps 25 years, Williams says-might be a type of computer that replacestraditional binary bits(1s and 0s) with qubits(quantum bits), which would transmit and process data using entanglement instead of circuts.
A mere 80 entangled qubits will pack an immpossible 151 trillion gigabytes of processing power--roughly correlated, 2.3 trillion times then todays best 64-bit architecture.--Joshua Tompkins