--------
Experts from the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB) have recently announced that they managed to create a new type of circuit that behaves in a quantum mechanic manner. They say that the innovative device does not have the regular two levels of energy, but that it boasts a full five of them. Details of the remarkable achievement appear in the August 7th issue of the prestigious journal Science. Researchers from the University of Georgia were also involved. The UCSB experts explain that these circuits behave in very much the same way individual atoms do, in that they can shift from one state of energy to another. The way these structures can do so is by exchanging energy packets known as quanta. When they receive or lose quanta, they essentially jump from one energy level to the other. In average computers, the bits â€" the basic unit of calculation - only have two energy states, “on†and “off,†but the new circuits that were devised at the university h!
ave five such layers of energy. “In our previous work, we focused on systems with just two energy levels, 'qubits,' because they are the quantum analog of 'bits,' which have two states, on and off’,†explains the first author of the new study, UCSB graduate student Matthew Neeley. The new quantum me...
--------
http://news.softpedia.com/news/New-Advancements-in-Quantum-Mechanical-Devices-119032.shtml
This e-mail was sent by Experiment23 Inc., located in New York, NY
10163. To not receive further e-mails, please visit
http://help.pingie.com
No comments:
Post a Comment