Information Security with Occasional Forays into Other Realms
Previiously unknown Qubit Control that reportedly promises significant exteensions to compute time... Want to dicover why longer computation time is a bona fide breakthrough? Read Chris Lee superlative screed at Ars Technica.
News via the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of NIST physicists efforts to cool down a component has yeilded an unexpected result. The effort utilized squeezed light (microwaves within an electromagnetic cavity, if you will) to cool the apparatus below the theoretical limit, in this case, below the so-called quantum limit.
Fascinating story, detailing the market entry of quantum computation - via the wunderkind of IBM. Written by GizMags' Colin Jeffrey, amd deemed this weeks Must Read. Execute your own experimentation regimen against your (temporarily) very own quantum bits.
Quite likely one of the best articles on the problematic world of quantum encryption, written by Natalie Wolchover (published in Quanta Magazine) managed to bubble up through the jetsam of our collective interwebs yesterday. Today's Must Read.
News, via Wired's Robert McMillan, of trouble in paradise. In this case, an error prone computational quantum platform the search leviathan Google Inc. (NasdqGS: GOOG) is running, down yonder in Mountain View...
"The crux of the problem is a phenomenon called bit-flipping. This happens when some kind of interference—cosmic rays, for example—causes the bits stored in memory to “switch state”—to jump from a 0 to a 1 or vice versa. On a PC or a server, error correction is relatively easy." - via Wired's Robert McMillan