Greetings,
Just felt like trolling around today. And since I haven't gotten off my Inception kick yet, I present you with the below!
Dav out
4 years ago
One of the most complex efforts toward a quantum computer has been shown off at the American Physical Society meeting in Dallas in the US.
It uses the strange "quantum states" of matter to perform calculations in a way that, if scaled up, could vastly outperform conventional computers.
The 6cm-by-6cm chip holds nine quantum devices, among them four "quantum bits" that do the calculations.
The team said further scaling up to 10 qubits should be possible this year.
Rather than the ones and zeroes of digital computing, quantum computers deal in what are known as superpositions - states of matter that can be thought of as both one and zero at once.
Its shaping up to be a pretty good day. So far its just been a lazy morning, a slow breakfast and now a margarita with a random book I bought at a sale (Chaos Space - Marianne de Pierres).
Think I'll continue to take it easy, the month owes me that much at least.
Dav out.