{"id":206520,"date":"2025-02-15T06:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-inspired-advancement-turns-crystal-gaps-into-terabyte-storage-for-classical-memory"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:12:11","slug":"quantum-inspired-advancement-turns-crystal-gaps-into-terabyte-storage-for-classical-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/quantum-inspired-advancement-turns-crystal-gaps-into-terabyte-storage-for-classical-memory","title":{"rendered":"Quantum-inspired advancement turns crystal gaps into terabyte storage for classical memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantum-inspired-advancement-turns-crystal-gaps-into-terabyte-storage-for-classical-memory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an \u201con\u201d and an \u201coff\u201d state, it can be used to store information.<\/p>\n<p>In a computer laptop, the binary ones and zeroes are transistors either running at low or high voltage. On a compact disc, the one is a spot where a tiny indented \u201cpit\u201d turns to a flat \u201cland\u201d or vice versa, while a zero is when there\u2019s no change.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, the size of the object making the \u201cones\u201d and \u201czeroes\u201d has put a limit on the size of the storage device. But now, University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) researchers have explored a technique to make ones and zeroes out of crystal defects, each the size of an individual atom for classical computer memory applications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From punch card-operated looms in the 1800s to modern cellphones, if an object has an \u201con\u201d and an \u201coff\u201d state, it can be used to store information. In a computer laptop, the binary ones and zeroes are transistors either running at low or high voltage. On a compact disc, the one is a spot where [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1512,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-mobile-phones","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}