A Review of Quantum Leap: Seize the Light

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A Review ofQuantum Leap Seize the Light

• Article originally published by Wired News
• Jan 9, 2002
• By Mark K. Anderson
• http//www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,49448,00.ht
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Motivation and Interest

• Growing area of IT research
• Require new knowledge and skills
• Radically alter computer systems

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Background

• Quantum computers have limited power
• Quantum computing power grows exponentially with
  size
• Computers are binary, quantum computers are
  trinary, using positive, zero, and both

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New State of Matter for Storage

• Research at Munich's Max Planck Institute for
  Quantum Optics and Zurich's Institute of Quantum
  Electronics
• A single atom can be used to store a qubit

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Implications

• Storage reduced to atom sized qubits
• Most research focused on quantum computing
• Researchers are now beginning to look at quantum
  storage
• Both computation and storage are required to
  implement QCs.

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