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Boffins store data in atom

Scientists from Oxford University, Princeton and the U.S. Department of Energy have paved the way for the world’s smallest storage device.

They succeeded in storing data for nearly 2 seconds in the nucleus of an atom. The process has been hailed as the “ultimate miniaturization of computer memory.” Tests involved using the electron and nucleus of a phosphorous atom embedded in a silicon crystal.

Previously, quantum information has only been stored in silicon for a fraction of a second.

 

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