World's Smallest Storage Space . the Nucleus of an Atom

23.10.08 - 21:45 ... source : National Science Foundation - US NSF

... Information lasts more than one second in hybrid quantum memory system Silicon, the grey half-moon object in the middle of the tube, is loaded into a resonator. Credit and Larger Version October 23, 2008 An international team of scientists recently performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory: storing information at the nucleus of an atom. The breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life quantum computers, devices based on the theory of quantum mechanics.In the quantum world, objects such as atoms can exist simultaneously in multiple states--that is, they could literally be in two places at once, or possess a number of other seemingly mutually exclusive properties. Quantum computing is seen as a holy grail of computing because each individual piece of information, or 'bit', can have more than one value at once.A bit is a fundamental unit of information, represented as a 0 or 1 in a normal di ...» Next (HTML)