Comments on: Physicists Find New Way to Store Quantum Information in Impure Diamonds http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Remember http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26233 Remember Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:09:13 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26233 Lol brian you must factor in many variables before you come to such a solid conclusion, you must be forgetting diamonds can be created in various ways and im sure when a technique like this becomes more refined people will find more use for those diamonds around t their necks ;) Lol brian you must factor in many variables before you come to such a solid conclusion, you must be forgetting diamonds can be created in various ways and im sure when a technique like this becomes more refined people will find more use for those diamonds around t their necks ;)

]]> By: pajama jeans http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26232 pajama jeans Fri, 12 Aug 2011 10:39:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26232 Wow, technology never ceases to amaze me. Wow, technology never ceases to amaze me.

]]> By: Brian Too http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26231 Brian Too Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:07:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26231 I'd be very cautious about the practicalities of such a device. The basic materials research is wonderful and that's all to the good of course. However they are taking a very novel approach to data storage. Most novel approaches never make it to any kind of commercial reality. Then they add on the quantum computing angle and this too is still profoundly experimental. Fascinating to think about and tremendous potential, but literally another world beyond conventional computing. And diamonds! Why did it have to be diamonds?! Be prepared for the Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton jokes. Also if the technique can be scaled down to use microscopic diamonds then maybe costs can be controlled. However for macroscopic diamonds, what does that do to the cost envelope? I’d be very cautious about the practicalities of such a device. The basic materials research is wonderful and that’s all to the good of course.

However they are taking a very novel approach to data storage. Most novel approaches never make it to any kind of commercial reality.

Then they add on the quantum computing angle and this too is still profoundly experimental. Fascinating to think about and tremendous potential, but literally another world beyond conventional computing.

And diamonds! Why did it have to be diamonds?! Be prepared for the Lindsay Lohan/Paris Hilton jokes. Also if the technique can be scaled down to use microscopic diamonds then maybe costs can be controlled. However for macroscopic diamonds, what does that do to the cost envelope?

]]> By: IanW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26230 IanW Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:56:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26230 This gives a whole new meaning to the term 'hard drive' doesn't it?! This gives a whole new meaning to the term ‘hard drive’ doesn’t it?!

]]> By: Sara Stark http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26229 Sara Stark Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:40:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26229 Holy crap, this is amazing!! Holy crap, this is amazing!!

]]> By: Robbie http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26228 Robbie Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:01:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26228 Typo detected! KILL IT!!!! "When a nitrogen is next to an empty spot..." I don't think "a nitrogen" is a single object, maybe nitrogen atom? Typo detected! KILL IT!!!!

“When a nitrogen is next to an empty spot…”
I don’t think “a nitrogen” is a single object, maybe nitrogen atom?

]]> By: nate http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26227 nate Tue, 29 Mar 2011 12:49:19 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26227 This is a very good article on quantum computing. Papers reporting advances are pretty common nowadays, but its always difficult to ascertain what's really going on, and the significance of the discovery. KISS This is a very good article on quantum computing. Papers reporting advances are pretty common nowadays, but its always difficult to ascertain what’s really going on, and the significance of the discovery. KISS

]]> By: Georg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/03/28/physicists-find-new-way-to-store-quantum-information-in-impure-diamonds/#comment-26226 Georg Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:28:01 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=27551#comment-26226 <i>They could form a quantum link between the spin of the nitrogen atom</i> That is the spin of the nitrogen <b>nucleus, not atom</b>! They could form a quantum link between the spin of the nitrogen atom

That is the spin of the nitrogen nucleus, not atom!

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