[ Your Name ] would like to inform you about this article on Complexity Digest 2008.32 - 02 http://comdig.unam.mx/index.php?id_issue=2008.32#30850 10-Aug-2008 [ Your Message ] PDF files of our annual editions are available at http://www.comdig.de/AnnualEditions.html A letter from Gottfried Mayer to our readers and friends is at http://www.comdig.de/GMLetter.html Quantum Computing: Cloudy Computing, Nature Excerpts: Quantum computing is in its infancy, in part because creating a large number of quantum bits, or 'qubits', is impossible without better control over quantum states. Side-stepping this snag, Klaus Molmer (...) propose encoding lots of qubits in clouds of polar molecules. Their theoretical set-up would use a laser to 'write' qubits as a pattern across an entire molecular cloud - an easier task than controlling individual molecules. Source: Quantum Computing: Cloudy Computing[ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v454/n7204/full/454554f.html ], DOI: 10.1038/454554f, Nature 454, 554-555, 08/07/31 You can discuss this article on Articles Forum http://comdig.unam.mx/topic.php?id_article=30850