I do not know.
But the research at Stanford outlined in this ZDNet article surely is interesting. The implication ? More and faster storage, cialis more stuff, decease more noise, more flow, more confusion, more creation … just more.
In case you were waiting for things to go back to "normal" 😉
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Quantum holographic storage: it works!
Researchers at Stanford University have demonstrated quantum holographic storage, shattering long-held assumptions about the information limits of matter. Moving into the sub-atomic realm, they permanently stored 35 bits in the quantum space surrounding a single electron.
Moreover, the technique allows holograms to be “stacked” in 3 dimensions. They demonstrated 2 35-bit storage elements in the same space. Encoding data using mere atoms would be less than half as space efficient.
Holodeck backstory
Traditional holograms – like those nifty green reflection skulls you see in trinket shops – use a laser. The laser is split into a reference beam and an object beam that has been reflected off the 3D surface you are recording.The 2 beams are recombined and the resulting interference pattern stored in a 2D photographic emulsion. When viewed, the the hologram reproduces the object as it appeared in 3D space so it appears to rotate as it is moved.
A spin-off from Bell Labs has been working on commercial holographic storage for several years.
Quantum holography
The researchers (Christopher R. Moon, Laila S. Mattos, Brian K. Foster, Gabriel Zeltzer and Hari C. Manoharan) an interdisciplinary team from the departments of Physics, Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics at Stanford, used a gas of 2D surface state electrons held on the face of a copper crystal. Using atomic manipulation the team place individual electrons in closed quantum corrals – a common research tool.The tricky part was encoding a specific pattern around the electrons. Using simulated annealing, they controlled the amplitude and phase of the electrons to encode the bits.
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