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Published online 24 January 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.54
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How low can you go?
Quantum hologram pushes back the limits of information density.
The ones and zeroes that propel the digital world — the fording of electrons across a transistor, or hard drives reliant on electrons' intrinsic spin — are getting packed into smaller and smaller spaces. The limit was thought to be set: no more than one bit of information could be encoded on an atom or electron.
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Well does that mean we are going to have a world virtually free of hard-drives : that is going to be awesome.