An international team of scientists recently performed the ultimate miniaturization of computer memory: storing information at the nucleus of an atom. The breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life quantum computers, devices based on the theory of quantum mechanics. In the quantum world, objects such as atoms can exist simultaneously in multiple states--that is, they could literally be in two places at once, or possess a number of other seemingly mutually exclusive properties. (source: nsf.gov)
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