Last updated on December 21, 2013 at 4:59 EST  Hybrid Memory
Solves Key Problem For Quantum Computing  October 24, 2008  An
international team of scientists has performed the ultimate
miniaturization of computer memory: storing information inside
the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in
bringing to life a quantum computer – a device based on the
fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack
problems unsolvable by current technology.  In the quantum
world, objects such as atoms are allowed to exist in multiple
states simultaneously — that is, they could literally be in two
places at once or possess a number of other seemingly mutually
exclusive properties. Quantum computing is seen as the holy
grail of computing because each individual piece of information,
or “Ëœbit’, can have more than one value at once, as opposed to
current technology which is limited to either 1s or 0s. This
yields unprecedented processing power and thus dramatically
widens the scope of what computers can do.