Posted by: JoshuaFurtado on Jul 12, 2012
Category: Industry Innovations

‘Unprecedented’ discovery could propel ‪ quantum computers to reality.

By The Bunsen Burner:

"A group of Harvard scientists, led by Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin and including graduate students Georg Kucsko and Peter Maurer and postdoctoral researcher Christian Latta, say they have cracked the code regarding the cooling of quantum computers.

And they did it by turning to one of the purest materials on Earth: diamonds.

The research is the latest step towards creating quantum computers. A practical quantum computer with enough qubits available could complete in minutes calculations that would take ultrafast super-computers years, and your laptop perhaps millions of years to process. Such computers will harness the powers of atoms and sub-atomic particles (ions, photons, electrons) to perform memory and processing tasks, thanks to the strange sub-atomic properties of quantum mechanics, say scientists."

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