Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > sci.physics > #521567 > unrolled thread

One step closer to a new kind of computer

Back to article view | Back to sci.physics

Contents

  One step closer to a new kind of computer Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-16 20:49 -0500
    Re: One step closer to a new kind of computer jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-09-17 02:06 +0000
    Re: One step closer to a new kind of computer gilber34 <invalid@invalid.com> - 2015-09-17 09:33 -0500

#521567 — One step closer to a new kind of computer

One step closer to a new kind of computer
> http://phys.org/news/2015-09-closer-kind.html


> An international group of physicists, including Aleksandr Golubov,
> head of the MIPT Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in
> Superconductor Systems, recently presented results of experiments
> testing a new phenomenon in the journal Science. The results may
> assist scientists in the creation of an essentially new kind of
> electronics—Mott transition, or the transition of an insulator to a
> conductor.
>
> Researchers from institutions in the Netherlands, Great Britain,
> Italy, the USA and Russia conducted a series of experiments with Mott
> insulators. These materials, according to band theory, should be
> conductors, but in practice, are dielectrics (insulators). In general
> terms, the mechanism behind this anomaly is known to physicists,
> though a complete theory for Mott insulators does not yet exist. They
> do not fully understand how the materials transform from insulators
> into conductors.


-- 

sci.physics is an unmoderated newsgroup dedicated
to the discussion of physics, news from the physics
community, and physics-related social issues.

[toc] | [next] | [standalone]

#521576

Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> One step closer to a new kind of computer

Seems to me we have been "One step closer to a new kind of computer"
for many years and steps now, shit head.

Much like practical fusion, a cure for the common cold, and peace
in the Middle East...


-- 
Jim Pennino

[toc] | [prev] | [next] | [standalone]

#521634

On 9/16/2015 8:49 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> One step closer to a new kind of computer
>> http://phys.org/news/2015-09-closer-kind.html
>
>
>> An international group of physicists, including Aleksandr Golubov,
>> head of the MIPT Laboratory of Topological Quantum Phenomena in
>> Superconductor Systems, recently presented results of experiments
>> testing a new phenomenon in the journal Science. The results may
>> assist scientists in the creation of an essentially new kind of
>> electronics—Mott transition, or the transition of an insulator to a
>> conductor.
>>
>> Researchers from institutions in the Netherlands, Great Britain,
>> Italy, the USA and Russia conducted a series of experiments with Mott
>> insulators. These materials, according to band theory, should be
>> conductors, but in practice, are dielectrics (insulators). In general
>> terms, the mechanism behind this anomaly is known to physicists,
>> though a complete theory for Mott insulators does not yet exist. They
>> do not fully understand how the materials transform from insulators
>> into conductors.
>
>

so, they are going into computer production using something they dont 
understand, and haven't built any of yet, and do not exist yet.

[toc] | [prev] | [standalone]

Back to top | Article view | sci.physics

csiph-web