09 May 2006
12-qubits reached in quantum information quest

Of all the little tidbits of tech news I've posted here in the past few years, this one is the one that I feel is most likely to be remembered as a milestone. A twelve bit system may not seem like much, but given the possibilities for massive parallelism in quantum systems it's really huge. For more on qubits see Wikipedia.

In the drive to understand and harness quantum effects as they relate to information processing, scientists in Waterloo and Massachusetts have benchmarked quantum control methods on a 12-Qubit system.

(link) [EurekAlert!]

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