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  UNSW team creates single-atom transistor

  Australian researchers at the University of NSW's ARC Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology have successfully created a single-atom transistor with implications for both classical and quantum computing.

  By Rohan Pearce | 21 February, 2012 09:00

  Tags: quantum computing

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  Is quantum computing real?

  Researchers have been working on quantum systems for more than a decade, in the hopes of developing super-tiny, super-powerful computers. And while there is still plenty of excitement surrounding quantum computing, significant roadblocks are causing some to question whether quantum computing will ever make it out of the lab.

  By Julie Sartain | 26 September, 2011 14:28

  Tags: Configuration / maintenance, Data Center, hardware systems, quantum computing, University of Virginia

• Scientists make quantum breakthrough

  Australian scientists say they're coming first in a world-wide race to create a new breed of super computers set to transform the way we live.

  By AAP | 27 September, 2010 14:36

  Tags: quantum computing, supercomputers, University of NSW

• Scientists make quantum computing breakthrough

  Quantum computers technically are still years away, but a group of researchers working in Australia have notched up an important win after 10 years of toil

  By AAP | 27 September, 2010 14:06

  Tags: quantum computing, silicon, university of melbourne

• Humble LEDs power quantum computing breakthrough

  Cambridge scientists have come up with a simple way to generate the entangled photons needed by quantum computers using a cheap light emitting diode (LED) powered by electrical voltage.

  By John E. Dunn | 03 June, 2010 23:54

  Tags: LED, quantum computing

Whitepapers about quantum computing

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  Watson – A System Designed for Answers: The future of workload optimized systems design

  Watson is the latest IBM Research Grand Challenge, designed to further the science of natural language processing through advances in question and answer technology. This white paper explains Watson’s workload optimized system design, how it’s emblematic of the future of systems design, and why this represents a new computing paradigm.