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Friday, March 15, 2013

#QUANTUM: "Harnessing a MEMS mechanical memory"

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, Boulder, Colorado) has demoed a MEMS version of a delay-line memory which it claims will be a viable scratchpad memory for future quantum computers. By converting quantum encoded microwave photons into acoustic phonons in a mechanical medium--and back again--the MEMS memory can store intermediate quantum-bit (Q-bits) values during calculations: R. Colin Johnson @NextGenLog


MEMS micro-drum and circuit on a sapphire backing. JILA researchers demonstrated that the drum might be used as a memory device in future quantum computers.

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