Researchers Develop Quantum Processor

[EnumaElish]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20060113/bs_nf/40876

 

[rachmaninoff]

AP science writers aren't good places to learn about current research.

The paper:
http://iontrap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/publications/archive/naturephys_2005_stick_GaAs.pdf

and the research group:
http://iontrap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/

and 23 more recent publications by them, accessible for free apparently:
http://iontrap.physics.lsa.umich.edu/publications/recent_pubs.html

I haven't read anything yet, still mostly blind from the optomerist's eye drops.

 

[fargoth]

"the Michigan team was able to trap a single atom within an integrated chip and control it using electrical signals"

well, this isn't a breakthrough, its already being done for some-time now in my university, infact my classmate works on it...

i posted somewhere here a question about trapping this atom above the face of the chip.

 

[EnumaElish]

That's the first time I have come across such research and the reason was it was in Yahoo news, my home page. I understand that it doesn't mean that other people didn't know about it or haven't invented it earlier and better.