News tagged with logic operations

Single molecule performs multiple logic operations simultaneously

(PhysOrg.com) -- While molecules have already been used to perform individual logic operations, scientists have now shown that a single molecule can perform 13 logic operations, some of them in parallel. The ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 9 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists demonstrate teleportation-based optical quantum entangling gate

(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking a step toward the realization of futuristic quantum technologies, a team of physicists from China and Germany has demonstrated a key element – an entangling gate – of a quantum ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (23) | comments 8 | with audio podcast feature

Physicists set guidelines for qubit candidates

(PhysOrg.com) -- To build a quantum computer, it's essential to be able to quickly and efficiently manipulate the quantum states of qubits. The qubits, which are the basic unit of quantum information, can be composed of many ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (17) | comments 2 feature

Self-Programming Hybrid Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law

(PhysOrg.com) -- As researchers strive to increase the density and functionality of circuit elements onto computer chips, one newer option they have is a memory resistor (or “memristor”), the fourth passive ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (46) | comments 8 feature

NIST achieves record-low error rate for quantum information processing with one qubit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to advances in experimental design, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have achieved a record-low probability of error in quantum information processing ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Team develops 'logic gates' to program bacteria as computers

A team of UCSF researchers has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to communicate and perform computations.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Push-Button Logic on the Nanoscale

(PhysOrg.com) -- Circuits that can perform logic operations at the push of a button are a dime-a-dozen these days, but a breakthrough by researchers in the USA has meant they can be smaller and simpler than ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

HP Labs find memristors can compute (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at HP Labs, the central research arm of HP, have discovered that a resistor with memory, a “memristor” can also perform logic operations. This means chips storing data may also ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (45) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Sustained quantum information processing demonstrated

Raising prospects for building a practical quantum computer, physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated sustained, reliable information processing operations on electrically ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Researchers develop better control for DNA-based computations

A North Carolina State University chemist has found a way to give DNA-based computing better control over logic operations. His work could lead to interfacing DNA-based computing with traditional silicon-based computing.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

X marks the spot: Ions coldly go through NIST trap junction

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a new ion trap that enables ions to go through an intersection while keeping their cool. Ten million times ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Giant Rydberg atoms confined in a micro-glass cell

Rydberg atoms are highly sensitive atoms, as one electron is only loosely bound. Compared to 'normal' atoms which are one tenth of a nanometer in size those giant atoms are ~100 nanometers large. Due to their sensitivity ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Jan 14, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 8