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Another step toward quantum computers

NOV 21, 2006
Physics Today
ZDNET : One day, we might use super fast computers based on quantum physics. But how these computers will read data? An international team from Germany and the U.S. has just shown that it’s possible to read data stored as nuclear ‘spins.’ This new way of reading the spin of thousands of electrons is not the ultimate goal: a real quantum computer would need to read the spins of single particles. Still, this new method is far better than previous ones which only allowed to read the net spins of the electrons of billion of atoms combined.
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