NIST demonstrates 'universal' programmable quantum processor
Sunday, November 15, 2009 - 20:15
in Physics & Chemistry
BOULDER, Colo. -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- the rules governing the submicroscopic world -- using two quantum bits (qubits) of information.