Beam Me Up, Ytterbium

Thursday, January 29, 2009 - 11:35 in Physics & Chemistry

The shambling, shuffling, marathon march towards making a quantum computer has just skipped ahead a few steps with the first successful transference of information between two particles of matter. While earlier work with photons proved the feasibility of quantum processing, this experiment represents the first-ever creation of quantum memory. read more

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