{"id":3085,"date":"2012-02-19T16:57:09","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2012-08-26T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T19:40:54","slug":"physicists-create-a-working-transistor-from-a-single-atom-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In contrast to conventional computers that are based on transistors with distinct \u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d or \u201c1\u201d and \u201c0\u201d states, quantum computers are built from devices called qubits that exploit the quirky properties of quantum mechanics. Unlike a transistor, a qubit can represent a multiplicity of values simultaneously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/20\/science\/physicists-create-a-working-transistor-from-a-single-atom.html?_r=1\">Physicists Create a Working Transistor From a Single Atom &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In contrast to conventional computers that are based on transistors with distinct \u201con\u201d and \u201coff\u201d or \u201c1\u201d and \u201c0\u201d states, quantum computers are built from devices called qubits that exploit the quirky properties of quantum mechanics. Unlike a transistor, a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=3085\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[100,507,506],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical","tag-interesting-research","tag-purdue","tag-quantum-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5802,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions\/5802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}