June 1, 2007
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The Diamond Age Starts... Now?
Physicists just figured out how to address a single carbon-13 nucleus as a memory register — a quantum bit — at room temperature. That’s an important distinction; all quantum memory to date has relied on freakish near-absolute-zero conditions in the lab.
P.S. It also involves lasers. Of course.
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