This is a pretty big step in quantum computing, although there are a few caveats.
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Most quantum computing to date has been based on architecture that predates von Neumann.
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The advances, however, do come from the weirdest of ideas -- much like quantum computing we suppose.
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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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Our relationship will allow us to significantly advance the potential of quantum computing.
Quantum computing might eventually solve many of our problems in the future, but what about the pressing issues of today?
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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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But their demonstration of dipole trapping at least shines a captivating light down the path to quantum computing becoming a practical technology.
As amazing an achievement as this is, this is only the start of providing a basis for either conventional or quantum computing.
But quantum computing has a long way to go before that happens.
Others are more familiar within their specialisms, which range from cosmology to quantum computing, but Mr Milner insists they are no less deserving.
Some physicists have conjectured that the two possible nuclear spins of P-31 make it ideal for use as the basis for solid-state quantum computing.
His thought experiment suggests that researchers in the small but potentially significant field of quantum computing should be turning their attentions to game theory.
Yet despite its immense capabilities, practical quantum computing is still a long way from reality, says Steven Koonin, provost at Caltech and a quantum-computing researcher.
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.
"All conventional encryption would be vulnerable with quantum computing, " says Everitt.
This has been the focus of some other quantum computing work using flawed silica and diamonds, but those setups are a lot more complicated than this one.
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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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Among other interests he is pursuing for Microsoft are new ways of writing big, complex software packages, as well as new ways to realize superfast, sub-atomic quantum computing.
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.
And quantum computing is so new that scientists can only begin to imagine what it might one day be able to do, says John Preskill, a physicist at Caltech.
The combined material might have applications in quantum computing.
Quantum computing would be especially useful for code breaking.
Physicists at the University of New South Wales have created a transistor composed of a single atom, which is an amazing feat of nanoengineering, and could provide a better foundation for scalable quantum computing.
Researchers at Griffith University have managed to snap the first image of a single atom's shadow and, while the dark spot may be physically small, the implications for the field of quantum computing are huge.
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In a new paper published last week in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have published a method that allows for much more stable quantum entanglement, which may help pave the way for better quantum communication and quantum computing.
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"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 researchers have actually managed to build one of their fabled devices (though it had only three qubits), and have worked out the mathematics that would allow a bigger machine to solve hitherto hard problems in cryptography.
Although they are decades from being practical, according to researchers, quantum computers may one day add previously unimagined computing power to such complex tasks as database-searching and breaking secret codes, tasks that now require powerful supercomputers.
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