X-Message-Number: 15091
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Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2000 22:43:49 +0000
From: "Joseph Kehoe" <>
Subject: Re: CryoNet #15083 - #15087

>Message #15084
>Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:53:53 +0100
>From: Henri Kluytmans <>
>Subject: quantum dot computer <> quantum computer
>
>Joseph Kehoe wrote :
>
>>quantum computers nearer. If we can get these working
>>then a lot of speed and space problems will simply disappear!!
>>University of Nebraska contend that their architecture for quantum-dot
>
>Please don't call this a quantum computer. This creates
>misconceptions. A real quantum computer is a computer
>which operates using quantum logic (superpositions of
>qubits).

According to the article that is what it is
quantum dots used to store qubits!

The idea is to use their technique to set up arrays of qubits.

If they can combine that with the work of other researchers in interrogating 
qubits
then we are well on the way to quantum computing.

Joseph.

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