Stanford's Quantum Hologram Sets Storage Record

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??

[w0mprat]

35 bits per electron?! This kind of resets a few common assumptions about how much data can be stored in matter. Feynman was right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_Plenty_of_Room_at_the_Bottom [wikipedia.org]

High School Science?

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[textstring]

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

[ConanG]

Or the 16 GB microSDHC cards. The 32GB ones are just around the corner.