Of quantum computers and diamonds
Written by John M   

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Diamonds ARE forever.
Quantum computing is the future, there's little doubt about it. Getting past the limitations of the binary system will be a gigantic leap. But one of the main problems this technology faced was operating temperature. At the begining of the research, it had to be close to absolute zero. Well, a Harvard team has acomplished "something" at room temperature.

"Quantum Register Based on Individual Electronic and Nuclear Spin Qubits in Diamond" is the title of science magazine's article describing basically that they have laid the "basis for scalable, optically coupled quantum information systems". This basis is the aforementioned register, which is what we could call a bit.

If we can store information (only for some seconds right now), quantum storage is on the way. And after that, quantum processing will follow. The only shortcoming of this experiment is that they used a component of diamonds. Mayhap it turns out to be a good time for investing. Just to be on the safe side of things, if you are planning to buy a wedding ring, put a diamond on it.

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