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Why Two-Dimensional Worlds Matter

Posted: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008 @ 6:15 pm in Science | No Comments »

An artcile in the new Nature (probably behind the paywall) called “Quantum computation: The dreamweaver’s abacus” discusses first successful experiments that for the first time proved the existence of quasi-particles of quarter charge that have the properties needed to build qubits for quantum computing. Wait? Quasi-particles? Qubits? What?
Well, I can’t even start telling about quantum […]