Quantum computers: the world's fastest thinking machine fits on the head...

Popular Mechanics;  December 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Almost everything about quantum computers seems too strange to be...Y., to begin working on quantum computers when slide rules still ruled...quest, let his plans for quantum computers collect dust for nearly...

'Milestone' reported in quantum computing.

United Press International;  December 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......calculation yet. Though practical quantum computers -- which will potentially pack millions...milestone on a long path to practical quantum computers, Peter Shor of AT&T Laboratories...principle, with the construction of quantum computers. This was unclear only a few years...

Quantum leap computers

Electromagnetic News Report;  July 1, 2000 ;     280 words ...Quantum computers, many times faster than today...their silicon-based counterparts, quantum computers use nuclear magnetic resonance...ordinary transistors. Although quantum computers are still a laboratory curiosity...

Sight unseen: quantum errors found, fixed.(quantum computers)(Brief...

Science News;  September 12, 1998 ;     501 words ......it improves the outlook for useful quantum computers. Theorists predict that quantum computers can outperform conventional computers...calculations (SN: 6/14/97, p. 367). Quantum computers derive their unique power, but also...

Why 3 x 5 = 15 is a miracle of modern technology KEY FACTORS

The Sunday Telegraph London;  December 30, 2001 ;     700+ words ......worldwide effort to build so-called quantum computers. These computers were proposed in...atoms. Theory suggested that these quantum computers would have peculiar properties. A...dazzled by the possibilities of using quantum computers to explore vast numbers of potential...

US researcher puts forward easier model to build quantum computers

Xinhua News Agency;  March 4, 2005 ;     333 words ......puts forward easier model to build quantum computers LOS ANGELES, March 3 (Xinhua)-- A...represent values of 1 or 0, while quantum computers will use atoms, for example, as quantum...issue for the reliability of future quantum computers is the fragility of quantum states...

MIT moves closer to futuristic computer.

United Press International;  August 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ......machines. Such future computers, called quantum computers, will have components smaller than...lost information in huge databases. Quantum computers have remained largely a dream for...tells it to do something else. Quantum computers add another level of instruction...

MIT moves closer to futuristic computer.(Updated).

United Press International;  August 13, 1999 ;     700+ words ......machines. Such future computers, called quantum computers, will have components smaller than...lost information in huge databases. Quantum computers have remained largely a dream for...tells it to do something else. Quantum computers add another level of instruction...

Noisy snapshots show quantum weirdness.

TRN Newswire;  April 27, 2005 ;     323 words ......quantum communications research. Quantum computers and communications equipment use...out the basic logic operations of quantum computers and to teleport particles. Quantum computers could, in theory, solve certain large...

Orion's belter; Quantum computing.(A practical quantum computer)

The Economist (US);  February 17, 2007 ;     660 words ......quantum computer. On paper at least, quantum computers promise to reduce dramatically the...looked at in order to find the best. Quantum computers provide a neat shortcut to solving...realistic prospect of integrating quantum computers with conventional ones. Dr Rose favours...

Opening a quantum door on computing.

Science News;  May 14, 1994 ;     700+ words ......is the first real indication that quantum computers would be useful if one could build...exploring the feasibility of building quantum computers but also brings quantum physics more...ever into computer science. What quantum computers can do is strange and different enough...

Researchers continues to make the basic building blocks of Quantum...

M2 Presswire;  December 17, 2003 ;     472 words ......make the basic building blocks of Quantum Computers.(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD...the technologies aimed at making quantum computers, organizes key issues and puts them...explains how the technologies work. Quantum computers, which use attributes of particles...

Computers take quantum leap

Signal;  February 1, 2002 ;     246 words ......conventional computers to solve. Quantum computers operate by taking advantage of certain...between qubits, scientists can make quantum computers perform certain types of calculations...equation designed specifically for quantum computers to find a number's factors. Because...

Quantum computers come a step closer to reality

The Hindustan Times;  July 7, 2006 ;     327 words ......can be easily mass-produced to make quantum computers large enough for practical purposes...successfully demonstrated individually. Quantum computers could exploit the unusual behaviour...working on quantum bits or qubits in quantum computers. Their latest research was concentrated...

Ion trap might be a quantum key.(The Dallas Morning News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......potential-packed gizmos are called quantum computers. So far they aren't calculating much...processors that can already be made. Quantum computers exploit the mind-boggling principles...electrical charges and microchips, quantum computers use individual atoms or subatomic...