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Published online 28 June 2009 |
Nature
| doi:10.1038/news.2009.603
Corrected online: 3 July 2009
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Spooky computers closer to reality
Solid-state quantum processing demonstrated.
The computers of tomorrow could be quantum not classical, using the quantum world's strange properties to vastly increase memory and speed up information processing. But making quantum computing parts from standard kit has proved difficult so far.
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Fascinating and important! Although this work is not quite at the atomic level, as is suggested to be a goal by many reports on quantum computing research, it is a working system with potential for expansion. Skeptics will discount the 80 and 90% algorithm success rates but the concept is very exciting, at least for this interested observer of the computer revolution of the past few decades.