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Published online 21 July 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050718-12
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Quantum computers go for a spin
Theoretical device helps researchers rethink quantum computing.
Two physicists have come up with an idea that could crack the as yet unsolved problem of how to build a quantum computer, a device that would make a conventional supercomputer look like a Palm Pilot.
Hans-Andreas Engel and Daniel Loss of the University of Basel in Switzerland have explained how to make a device called a spin-parity meter.
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