A team of scientists has achieved what might prove to be a breakthrough in quantum computing. The group has managed to partially suppress quantum decoherence, one of the major obstacles to quantum computing, by using crystalline molecular magnets. Decoherence, which is a much-debated topic, is believed to be the loss of information from a system into the environment that fixes a system into one state. By doing so, decoherence negates quantum states, which exist because of the entanglement of multiple electrons and molecules.
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Scientists Untangle Tough Quantum Computing Knot
Posted by: Richard Adhikari July 21, 2011 12:20 PMA team of scientists has achieved what might prove to be a breakthrough in quantum computing. The group has managed to partially suppress quantum decoherence, one of the major obstacles to quantum computing, by using crystalline molecular magnets. Decoherence, which is a much-debated topic, is believed to be the loss of information from a system into the environment that fixes a system into one state. By doing so, decoherence negates quantum states, which exist because of the entanglement of multiple electrons and molecules.