This is a pretty big step in quantum computing, although there are a few caveats.
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The researchers hope that these wires can help in quantum computing, when one-atom transistors are eventually created.
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The hard part in quantum computing is containing those qubits.
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Mr Vedral's professional interests lie in quantum computing and quantum information science, which use the laws of quantum mechanics respectively to build powerful computers and render codes unbreakable.
The combined material might have applications in quantum computing.
From 1991 through January 2000, Mr. Case also served as Chief Executive Officer of America Online, which he co-founded in 1985 as Quantum Computing Services.
D-Wave is advertisting a number of different applications for its quantum computing system, primarily in the field of artificial intelligence.
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Both of these advances are helping to build the foundation for practical quantum computing, and point to the possibility of consumer grade quantum computers in the future.
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His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
"In a very naive way, the advantage of quantum computing is that by being a little bit of zero and a little bit of one, you can do two calculations at once, " says Raymond Laflamme, a researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Quantum computing might eventually solve many of our problems in the future, but what about the pressing issues of today?
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While not as overtly exciting or dramatic as the teleportation of an actual person, such quantum teleportation nonetheless has enormous implications for the world of computing both in terms of the amount of information that can be stored and the speed with which it can be moved around.
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