[extropy-chat] semiconductor quantum computer chips

[Dirk Bruere]

On 12/15/05, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 05:52:36PM -0600, Damien Broderick wrote:
> > University of Michigan develops scalable and mass-producible quantum
> > computer chip:
> >
> > http://www.physorg.com/news9063.html
>
> Or maybe they just shrunk a single ion trap by an order
> of magnitude, or two.


Which still counts as a major step forward.
Remember when ion traps were housed in big vacuum chambers?
This is potentially as impressive as the move from tubes to transistors.

Dirk
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