David Wineland has cautioned that such a super-computer was still a \"long, long way\" off. <\/p>\n
AFP Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 <\/p>\n
WASHINGTON - David Wineland, who won Tuesday the Nobel Prize for work in quantum physics with Serge Haroche of France, said our limited computers will \"eventually\" give way to super-fast, revolutionary ones. <\/p>\n
The pair, both 68, were honoured for pioneering optical experiments in \"measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems,\" the Nobel Physics jury said in its citation. <\/p>\n
\"Most science progresses very slowly,\" Wineland told AFP. <\/p>\n
\"On the computing side, we are able to think about applying these quantum systems to solve other problems that we try to do on computer now but our computers are limited. <\/p>\n
\"It has not happened yet and I am not even sure it will happen in the next decade, but I think it will eventually happen using quantum principles to make a quantum computer that will actually have applications.\" <\/p>\n
In a pre-dawn phone interview recorded and posted on the Nobel committee website earlier, Wineland cautioned that such a super-computer was still a \"long, long way\" off. <\/p>\n
Today's computers use a binary code, in which data is stored in a bit that could be either zero or one. <\/p>\n
But in superposition, a quantum bit, known as a qubit, could be either zero or one, or both zero and one at the same time. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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