BBC Focus Magazine

[Shadowwolf]

In the basement of Hoyt Laboratory at Princeton University, Alexei Tyryshkin clicked a computer mouse and sent a burst of microwaves washing across a silicon crystal suspended in a frozen cylinder of stainless steel.

The waves pulsed like distant music across the crystal and deep within its heart, billions of electrons started spinning to their beat.

Reaching into the silicon crystal and choreographing the dance of 100 billion infinitesimal particles is an impressive achievement on its own, but it is also a stride toward developing the technology for powerful machines known as quantum computers.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120117145236.htm

[M Paul Lloyd]

Amazing isn't it, something that could revolutionise computer technology being developed by two blokes in a basement.

Seriously cool stuff.

[Shadowwolf]

Though to be fair there is a world 'o' difference between two research electrical engineers in a basement lab at Princeton of all places, and two ordinary joes in their own basement or backyard shed with a box of bits

[M Paul Lloyd]

True, Jobs & Wozniak started in a converted garage didn't they?