Another breakthrough purportedly brings us closer to quantum computing

In reality, quite a bit of time has passed since we've heard of the next great leap in the (seemingly) never-ending journey towards quantum computing, but we're incredibly relieved to learn that at least someone is still out there, somewhere, pressing on. An international team of researchers have reportedly shown that they can "control the quantum state of a single electron in a silicon transistor, even putting the electron in two places at once." Essentially, the team is using tiny semiconductor transistors to "control the state of a quantum system," but there is still a long ways to go before any of this is meaningful. The crew managed to discover a few things by chance, yet to create a quantum computer, they would need to "position atoms of arsenic (or some other material) in the transistors more reliably." For those of you way too geeked out, fret not -- we'll let you know when all of this technobabble finally amounts to something.

[Thanks, Chris]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2008 11:43AM]

So we'll finally be able to play crysis now??

[Pickaxe Posted Jul 20th 2008 12:45PM]

Whore's? Is that some sort of badly-named restaurant?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 20th 2008 4:02PM]

It's been my experience that reality is highly over-rated.

[Phranky Posted Jul 28th 2008 10:13AM]

Zeds dead.

[Maeztro Posted Jul 20th 2008 3:07PM]

well..it either is, or it isn't...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2008 5:45AM]

I'm not sure I want my desktop PC to be full of arsenic