Scientists Build a Quantum Computer Inside a Diamond

[Guest]

When you are looking for an engagement ring, you might be focusing on diamond that have few imperfections and inclusions (besides size, of course), which make it less attractive as a jewelry item.

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[werewolfyman]

Yeah, but can your proposal run Crysis?

 

[stingstang]

[citation][nom]werewolfyman[/nom]Yeah, but can your proposal run Crysis?[/citation]
GTFO of here, werewolfman. We don't need that crap here.

 

[Onus]

A much better title would have been "Scientists Test the Quantum Computing Characteristics of a Diamond."

 

[A Bad Day]

Hopefully diamond to silicon is like transistor to vacuum tube.

 

[xurwin]

wow, now that's what we can call the most expensive diamond

 

[friskiest]

Would these work on bort diamonds?

 

[CaedenV]

*sigh* Tom's, you are all slipping up in the grammar department again. Just how hard it is to run your article through word first and see if there are any glaring mistakes?

 

[drwho1]

On other news: Graphic cards may soon start using diamonds as they are known to resist very high temperatures. As for price, we are told "not to worry", they will be available in exchange for a few internal organs.

 

[willard]

[citation][nom]werewolfyman[/nom]Yeah, but can your proposal run Crysis?[/citation]
Kudos for making the first funny Crysis joke in years.

 

[TeraMedia]

@caedenv: As your own post exemplifies, Word doesn't catch every grammar mistake... Cheers.

 

[Achoo22]

In related news, De Beers Diamond Co. is throwing the biggest party of the century.

 

[freggo]

May I propose a new slogan : "Diamonds area an IT Geeks best friend" 🙂

 

[lemlo]

How am I gonna mount my NHD-14 to this diamond? Does this overclock well? Can the microwaves nuke my hungry man meal? All legit questions...

 

[alchemy69]

So putting two transistors in a box is building a computer, is it?

 

[killerclick]

The first quantum computer will make all existing encryption trivial to break. I wonder who will get it first...

 

[obsama1]

But can it run Tetris?

 

[deksman]

What's with the (very bad) jokes?

As for diamonds... lol... let's see... we first made a man-made diamond back in 1950.
In the following 10 years (up to 1960's) they could have fully incorporated chip production via man-made diamonds.

And yes, they were viable for such use back then and could have been produced in mass quantities cheaply with good enough quality to be used for computers (this is even more-so possible today)

So effectively, we could have had diamond based computer chips for decades and technology that far surpasses current one in terms of power/efficiency and thermal output.
Actually, it's very likely the technology itself was made, never released into commercial production though.

One of the reasons why man-made diamonds were never put into mass production is due to the single cartel that holds the diamond market in it's proverbial grasp and effectively controls it, giving it means to charge insane prices.

That said, even if they are put in mass production, from a resource/technological/manpower point of view, production is cheap and more than doable in practically record time (has been for some time now), but still, as it's with any new product, it will probably cost A LOT because manufacturers love to overcharge for new technologies, even if they themselves spent a fraction on it.

On top of that, Graphene as a material was placed as public knowledge over 12 years ago.
Had they wanted to implement it in practical use, it would have taken them 2 years tops.

And if they made a combination of graphene/diamond chips... lol...

Seriously folks... consumer based technology is toying in obscurity for decades, but hey, the market is in no hurry to implement new technologies as soon as they are discovered because that would probably put a large dent into profits (merely because people would not be enticed to upgrade anytime soon).

What we have now in circulation is laughably outdated.
But hey... we live in a capitalist world... well-being of mankind is not the goal of such a system because money and profits are (everything else is a proverbial side-effect).

Quantum computers?
They should have been in circulation by now.

 

[Guest]

+1 on the Crysis joke. Somehow the movie Zardoz came to mind while reading this article....

 

[tomaz99]

[citation][nom]friskiest[/nom]Would these work on bort diamonds?[/citation]

heh...you're at a -2

How dare you mention Bort Diamonds! My family was killed by Bort Diamonds!

 

[dreadlokz]

I just hope that in 50 years or less we have quantum supercomputers, and everything else in the cloud =)

 

[__-_-_-__]

overclock your ring

 

[as33]

deksman why don't u do some research b4 u start talking nonsense first of all diamonds are insulators so there goes ur diamond chip theory .... graphene is used for microprocessors just not by INTEL or AMD (yet at least) and this article is about diamonds used as a medium so it can shield a bit of the interference/decoherence witch is the biggest problem quantum computers are facing at the moment something most didn't understand from the comments i see here 🙁

 

[echdskech]

Your qubits are now diamonds!

 

[Sonny73N]

What a bunch of nothing-better-to-do scientist with income on my tax dollar! How about making battery x100 more capacity so we can use electrical cords less often. And how about giving us alternate source of energy to run our cars instead of making us pay for ridiculous gasoline price. Should I go on...