University of Utah physicists managed to store information for 112 seconds in what may become the world’s tiniest computer memory – magnetic “spins” in the centers or nuclei of atoms. Afterwards, they were able to retrieve and read the data electronically – a big step toward using the new kind of memory for both faster… »

Researchers at MIT have managed to demonstrate an atomic quantum memory that can detect the polarization of a photon (“polarization quantum bit”), generate a signal announcing successful storage of the information, and generate a second photon with the same polarization whenever the system receives the instruction to read the information, in what is a key… »