Wednesday, July 30, 2008

QUANTUM COMPUTERS


Modern computer chips pack almost a billion transistors in a mere square inch of silicon, and in the future computer elements will shrink even more, approaching the size of individual molecules. At this level and smaller computers may begin to look fundamentally different because their workings will be governed by quantum mechanics, the physical laws that explain the behavior of atoms and subatomic particles. The great promise of quantum computers is that they may be able to perform certain crucial tasks considerably faster than conventional computers can.
Quantum computers, the ultra powerful computers can store and process data using atoms, photons or fabricated microstructures. One can store data on the ions and transfer information from one ion to another.

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