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Press Release 08-187
World's Smallest Storage Space ... the Nucleus of an Atom
Information lasts more than one second in hybrid quantum memory system
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In order to perfrom their experiments, the international team loaded silicon, the grey half-moon object in the middle of the tube, into a resonator. The team created a system that used both the electron and nucleus of a phosphorous atom embedded in a silicon crystal. Both the electron and nucleus behaved as tiny quantum magnets capable of storing quantum information. This allows information to stay intact for over a second, an important threshold in the development of quantum computing.
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The silicon sample is shown in the resonator used in the experiment. The team created a system that used both the electron and nucleus of a phosphorous atom embedded in a silicon crystal. Both the electron and nucleus behaved as tiny quantum magnets capable of storing quantum information. This allows information to stay intact for over a second, an important threshold in the development of quantum computing.
Credit: Courtesy of Stephen A. Lyon, Princeton University |
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