While widespread quantum computing may still be 15 years
away, a computer engineering professor at Missouri University of Science and
Technology has patented a quantum processor capable of parallel computing that
uses no transistors.
Dr. C.H. Wu, professor of electrical and computer
engineering at Missouri S&T, patented the device and will speak about the
research behind the patent at the American Physical Society March Meeting 2014
in Denver on Monday, March 3. His research will also be published in an
upcoming issue of the journal Cellular Automata. Wu’s work on the subject was
also published in a 2011 issue of the Journal of Applied Physics.