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Data movement is key to quantum computing

This should be no surprise to us as data professionals, but it seems that the biggest challenge to having a breakthrough in quantum computing is the ability to ETL (extract, transform, load) data inside the computer. Current research, as described in "‘Data-In, Data-Out’ signals Quantum Breakthrough” from newscientist.com, is to encode the quantum state of an atom cloud and move it to another cloud. A photon was used as the temporary holding area as it was transported along a fiber optic cable.

This is another piece of revealed lab findings that highlights some of the work being done for quantum computing. It is progressive, but there’s a long way to go. As Matthew Eisaman, a member of the Harvard team, states in the article, “it is necessary to increase the time that quantum information can be stored from the atom clouds from millionths of a second to thousandths.”

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