http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/ Engadget Comments for Atomic "transistor" proposed using quantum cloud material http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/Jan 31st 2007 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/
This stuff is fascinating but you'll most likely never see a BEC implemented in a consumer device using gasses. Researchers are working on similar problems in the solid state, which could be used in common devices, but there are problems keeping the states coherent.

It would be ironic if gaseous BECs were used because we'd have transitioned from the vacuum tube of old, to solid state transistors, and back again to [quantum] vacuum tubes. good times]]>Feb 1st 2007 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/Feb 1st 2007 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/
Manipulating atoms (plural, that is to say there are many in a BEC) with the BEC is an interesting thing. What was proposed by the scientists is an atomic transistor or a way of moving atoms around in a controlled fashion analogous to the way transistors can control the motion of electrons. With an atomic transistor and collections of BEC atoms, one might make "atomic circuits". That would be enable atoms to be moved around in a controlled fashion.

"Atomic-scale" circuits refer to electronic circuits that have size comparable to the size of individual atoms. Electrons move around, from single atom to single atom, in an atomic-scale circuit. If atomic-scale circuits can overcome their technical hurdles, then Moore's Law can be kept alive.]]>Feb 3rd 2007 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/Feb 1st 2007 6:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/blaQ. Bring it on! I dont want to be an old man tottering around playing bingo. Give me nano inhanced gonads and QD neurons.
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Forward, into the past!

What?]]>Feb 1st 2007 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/31/atomic-transistor-proposed-using-quantum-cloud-material/Feb 1st 2007 9:17PM