Dr. David Jamieson of Melbourne University talks about Quantum Computing: http://upclose.unimelb.edu.au/?q=node/31
>From abacus to Pentium Dual Core II to solve the code bloat problem. Limitations of Moore's Law. "Your bead in the abacus can either be left or right or up or down on the wire, but in the quantum world, a quantum bead doesn't have to obey those laws. And in fact it doesn't obey those laws. So, you can imagine grabbing he wire of your abacus that's got the beads on it, pulling it out of the frame and now allowing the wire to occupy any orientation in space it likes. So, the beads could not only be not only up and down, they could be left and right, in or out, backwards or forwards in their orientation in space. Now, that is what a quantum bead could do. But there is one further thing that is very important. The quantum bead can be up and down – simultaneously." "A standard computer memory consisting of strings of ones and zeros can only store one piece of information at a time. A quantum memory with its quantum bits or qbits could store simultaneously a large number of different numbers and then process them all simultaneously using the laws of quantum mechanics." The interview also cover four materials that be used in Quantum Computer: - Photon - Silicon - gallium arsenide - Diamonds _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
