Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Sep 2007 21:48 UTC, submitted by SReilly
For the first time the components that underlie quantum computing's great potential - qubits - have been linked on chips like those in conventional computers. Two US research teams used superconducting circuits to make two of the quantum components linked by a quantum information cable or bus. The bits that work together on calculations in a normal computer can exist in two states - either 0 or 1. But qubits can inhabit both at once, allowing them to process many calculations simultaneously when they get together.
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In 20-30 years time we are going to be looking back at press coverage like this in exactly the same way we are looking at pictures of ENIAC today :-)
Huge labs, full of equipment to achieve what today we only take for granted.
Room temperature is the least problem with this kind of equipment. Other quantum interactions could also take place with particles that are all around us and alter the outcome of a calculation...
I guess we are going to be needing even more strong Error Correction Codes now.
The Pegasus (A "supercomputer" of the 50s) had 80% of its equipment doing Error Detection and Correction to data that was stored to mercury delay lines (!) with a capacity of about 2kB for <2 seconds (!!!!!)
So i kind of see history repeating itself with these machines.