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.
