{"id":310,"date":"2013-09-09T06:22:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=310"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:23:43","slug":"researchers-claim-almost-instantaneous-quantum-computing-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Researchers claim &#8216;almost instantaneous&#8217; quantum computing breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Researchers%20claim%20%27almost%20instantaneous%27%20quantum%20computing%20breakthrough\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&#8230;\u00a0researchers at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/08\/14\/researchers-efficient-microbial-fuel-cell-sell-electricity\/\">Oregon State University<\/a>\u00a0have been plugging away at a low-cost, faster alternative for the past three years: tiny quantum devices called metal-insulator-metal diodes, or MIM diodes for short. Silicon chips involve electrons traveling through a transistor, but MIM diodes send electrons &#8220;tunneling&#8221; through the insulator in a quantum manner, such that they appear &#8220;almost instantaneously&#8221; on the other side. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;giving the scientists another method for engineering quantum mechanical tunneling. With MIIMs, super fast transistor-less computers could be around the corner. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2012\/08\/14\/researchers-efficient-microbial-fuel-cell-sell-electricity\/\">Oregon researchers<\/a>\u00a0aren&#8217;t bold enough to put a date on making any of this happen outside of the lab&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>From &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/09\/05\/oregon-state-university-miim-diodes\/http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/09\/05\/oregon-state-university-miim-diodes\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/09\/05\/oregon-state-university-miim-diodes\/http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/09\/05\/oregon-state-university-miim-diodes\/<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_counters\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-small.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top:2px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_c=new Array(\"twitter\",\"facebook_like\",\"facebook_send\",\"google\",\"pinterest\",\"linkedin\");var hupso_counters_lang = \"en_US\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"harryhofman\";var hupso_url_c=\"\";var hupso_title_c=\"Researchers%20claim%20%27almost%20instantaneous%27%20quantum%20computing%20breakthrough\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/counters.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>&#8230;\u00a0researchers at\u00a0Oregon State University\u00a0have been plugging away at a low-cost, faster alternative for the past three years: tiny quantum devices called metal-insulator-metal diodes, or MIM diodes for short. Silicon chips involve electrons traveling through a transistor, but MIM diodes send electrons &#8220;tunneling&#8221; through the insulator in a quantum manner, such that they appear &#8220;almost instantaneously&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hofman.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}