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We were just discussing this in another thread, and I said I'd let everyone know if I fan across anyting on QC. Guess what showed up on /. today? Turns out a group in Japan has made significant progress here...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/31/014225&mode=thread&tid=137&tid=99

Looks interesting. For those of you who are interested in descrete circuts, this is real progress. It's a CNOT gate! The author is thinking 10+ years away from production. Sounds optomistic today, but if I was working on a grant funded project, I'd be optomistic too.

Wow! That's amazing! I can't wait to see the games on those computers! lol


Ummm... one question, though...
what exactly is a quantum gate?

This is cool stuff - I can imagine modelling the folding of proteins would be a really sweet use of all that computing power.

If it ever hit the mainstream, the world would be a different place..

That's pretty cool. Lots of progress has been made.

And Link Antilles to answer you question. Well, logic gates such as AND, OR, and so on can't be reversed. A quantum gate can be reversable this means that there is an equal number of inputs and outputs. The one that's being worked with is called a controlled NOT gate which has two inputs.

This seems to be a bit obscure to me, but its the best I can do with what little I have found. Um, go google?

Well, if you have 'not' and 'and' you can create a NAND gate, from which any logic can emerge. COOL stuff!