X-Message-Number: 15084 Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 11:53:53 +0100 From: Henri Kluytmans <> Subject: quantum dot computer <> quantum computer Joseph Kehoe wrote : >quantum computers nearer. If we can get these working >then a lot of speed and space problems will simply disappear!! >University of Nebraska contend that their architecture for quantum-dot Please don't call this a quantum computer. This creates misconceptions. A real quantum computer is a computer which operates using quantum logic (superpositions of qubits). A computer based upon a quantum dot architecture is not a quantum computer, only the functioning of its elementary components (quantum dots) is based upon quantum mechanics. But also the functioning of the elementary components of conventional electronic computers (transistors) is based upon quantum mechanics. Grtz, >Hkl Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15084