A simple light bulb could hold the key to making practical quantum computers a reality, opening the way to much more powerful data processing capabilities.
Why the First Computers Were Made of Light Bulbs
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory say they've taken another step toward building a new kind of computer using quantum bits, or qubits. The technique involves jetting electrons from the filament of a light bulb, according to a recent paper in the peer-reviewed journal Nature.
Michael Nizich, a professor of computer science at the New York Institute of Technology who was not involved in the article, called the Argonne research "pretty important" in an email interview with Lifewire.
“It could lay the foundation for a truly affordable distribution of functional quantum processors in a variety of computing devices, leading to the next generation of potentially limitless computing processors,” he added.
