Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record 210
eldavojohn writes "It's often assumed that representing data reaches a limit when you get to the point that an atom represents one bit in some form or fashion. But Stanford University researchers have used a quantum hologram model to store the characters 'S' and 'U' by encoding the data at a rate of 35 bits per electron."
They did... how much?? (Score:5, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom [wikipedia.org]
High School Science? (Score:1, Informative)
It's obvious you can store more than one bit per electron, since electrons can have more than two energy levels.
Re:How much data? (Score:3, Informative)
35 bits is about 4x10^-13 LoC's, taking 1 LoC = 10TB.
so, you could fit the entire library of congress in about 9x10^-12 grams of copper.
Re:versus USB (Score:3, Informative)