Researchers divide enzyme to conquer genetic puzzle
Rice University researchers have found a way to divide and modify enzymes to create what amounts to a genetic logic gate.
View ArticleCellular computers: 'Genetic circuit' biological transistor enables computing...
When Charles Babbage prototyped the first computing machine in the 19th century, he imagined using mechanical gears and latches to control information. ENIAC, the first modern computer developed in the...
View ArticleQuantum dot commands light: A solid state ultrafast logic gate on a photon
(Phys.org) —If you could peek at the inner workings of a computer processor you would see billions of transistors switching back and forth between two states. In optical communications, information...
View ArticleFirst-ever high-resolution images of a molecule as it breaks and reforms...
When Felix Fischer of the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) set out to develop nanostructures made of graphene using a new, controlled approach to...
View ArticleEntanglement in a flash (w/ video)
(Phys.org) —JQI researchers under the direction of Chris Monroe have produced quantum entanglement between a single atom's motion and its spin state thousands of times faster than previously reported,...
View ArticleResearchers perform DNA computation in living cells
(Phys.org) —Chemists from North Carolina State University have performed a DNA-based logic-gate operation within a human cell. The research may pave the way to more complicated computations in live...
View ArticleResearchers get around bad gap problem with graphene by using negative...
(Phys.org) —A team of researchers at the University of California has come up with a way to use graphene in a transistor without sacrificing speed. In a paper they've uploaded to the preprint server...
View ArticleCarbon nanotube logic device operates on subnanowatt power
(Phys.org) —Researchers have demonstrated a new carbon nanotube (CNT)-based logic device that consumes just 0.1 nanowatts (nW) in its static ON and OFF states, representing the lowest reported value by...
View ArticleResearchers report nanoscale energy-efficient switching devices
By relentlessly miniaturizing a pre-World War II computer technology, and combining this with a new and durable material, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have built nanoscale switches...
View ArticleA quantum logic gate between light and matter
Scientists at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany, successfully process quantum information with a system comprising an optical photon and a trapped atom.
View ArticleNew tools advance bio-logic: Researchers build more sophisticated synthetic...
(Phys.org) —Researchers at Rice University and the University of Kansas Medical Center are making genetic circuits that can perform more complex tasks by swapping protein building blocks.
View ArticleResearchers build first 3D magnetic logic gate
(Phys.org) —The integrated circuits in virtually every computer today are built exclusively from transistors. But as researchers are constantly trying to improve the density of circuits on a chip, they...
View ArticleTaking transistors into a new dimension
A new breakthrough could push the limits of the miniaturization of electronic components further than previously thought possible. A team at the Laboratoire d'Analyse et d'Architecture des Systèmes...
View ArticlePaving the way for a faster quantum computer
A team of physicists from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have demonstrated a new quantum computation scheme in which operations occur without a well-defined order. The...
View ArticleHow UEA research could help build computers from DNA
New research from the University of East Anglia could one day help build computers from DNA.
View ArticleA little light interaction leaves quantum physicists beaming
A team of physicists at the University of Toronto (U of T) have taken a step toward making the essential building block of quantum computers out of pure light. Their advance, described in a paper...
View ArticleResearchers use disordered matter for computation, evolving breakthrough...
(Phys.org)—Natural computers, such as evolved brains and cellular automata, express sophisticated interconnected networks and exhibit massive parallelism. They also adapt to exploit local physical...
View ArticleCrucial hurdle overcome in quantum computing
The significant advance, by a team at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney appears today in the international journal Nature.
View ArticleThe most advanced quantum algorithm known
An international research collaborative has published a paper in the prestigious journal Nature Communications titled "Digital quantum simulation of fermionic models with a superconducting circuit."...
View ArticleRese demonstrates 'hybrid' logic gate as work towards quantum computer continues
Just over a year ago, the UK government announced an investment of £270m over five years to help get quantum technology out of laboratories and into the marketplace.
View ArticlePhysicists demonstrate a quantum Fredkin gate
Researchers from Griffith University and the University of Queensland have overcome one of the key challenges to quantum computing by simplifying a complex quantum logic operation. They demonstrated...
View ArticleA programming language for living cells
MIT biological engineers have created a programming language that allows them to rapidly design complex, DNA-encoded circuits that give new functions to living cells.
View ArticleGoogle combines two main quantum computing ideas in one computer
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers from Google, the University of the Basque Country, the University of California and IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science has devised a means for combining the two...
View ArticleQuantum processor for single photons
"Nothing is impossible!" In line with this motto, physicists from the Quantum Dynamics Division of Professor Gerhard Rempe (director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics) managed to realise a...
View ArticleComputing study refutes famous claim that 'information is physical'
A quote often attributed to Einstein reads: "Everybody knows that some things are simply impossible until somebody who doesn't know that makes them possible."
View ArticleRecord-breaking logic gate 'another important milestone' on road to quantum...
Researchers at the University of Oxford have achieved a quantum logic gate with record-breaking 99.9% precision, reaching the benchmark required theoretically to build a quantum computer.
View ArticleA robust, two-ion quantum logic gate that operates in a microsecond is designed
The theory group led by Gonzalo Muga of the UPV/EHU's Department of Physical Chemistry has teamed up with the experimental group of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, United...
View ArticleA prototype for a spin-wave majority logic gate that uses wave interference...
Computer electronics are shrinking to small-enough sizes that the very electrical currents underlying their functions can no longer be used for logic computations in the ways of their larger-scale...
View ArticleGood vibrations for the future of computing
Vibrating mechanical switches that can be cascaded to perform complex computational operations could take computing significantly further than today's technologies. KAUST researchers have demonstrated...
View ArticleResearchers report novel collision-based computing technique
Researchers have published a paper that demonstrations the first laboratory experiment to use liquid marbles to create collision-based computation in research.
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