Quantumchip rides on superconducting bus
The connection of two Qubits on a chip for the first time. This is a crucialfirst step, a proof of concept, that will lead to true quantum computers.
In effect, says Johannes Majer, a member of the Yale team, the researchers have created"a quantum bus". A bus is used in conventional computers as a conduit for informationamong the various components – but its quantum chip equivalent has never been madebefore.
With the predictions for the end of Moore's law I refer you back to Ray Kurzweil's greatessay on accelerating change
that stipulated the doubling of computing power wasnot bound to the integrated chip. The phenomena both preceded the integratedchip and will in all likelihood continue after the silicon chip is no longer viable.
The creation of a working quantum computer might be as momentous an event as the creationof the transistor. History will of course judge.
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