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Article: Individual electrons measured in real time.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- June 16, 2003
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2003 JUN 16 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Physicists at Rice University have completed the first real-time measurement of individual electrons, creating an experimental method that for the first time allows scientists to probe the dynamic interactions between the smallest atomic particles.
The research, which appeared in the May 22, 2003, issue of the journal Nature, is important for researchers developing quantum computers, a revolutionary type of computer that is orders of magnitude more powerful than any computer ever built.
To date, computers have used the binary bit, represented by either a 1 or 0, as their fundamental unit of information. In a ...