Early computer oscillator could become a core part of quantum computers
Friday, August 29, 2014 - 07:00
in Physics & Chemistry
At the dawn of the era of solid-state electronics, a variety of promising technologies were competing to supplant the then-ubiquitous vacuum tube. The transistor quickly proved to be the fastest and most practical of these technologies. Yet as demonstrated by Zhirong Lin and Tsuyoshi Yamamoto from the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and their colleagues, one of the abandoned solid-state technologies, the parametric phase-locked oscillator (PPLO), could enjoy a revival as a core component of quantum computers.