http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2c70001-0.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
... So, on a semiconductor chip roughly the size of a postage stamp, the Michigan scientists designed and built a device known as an ion trap, which allowed them to isolate individual charged atoms and manipulate their quantum states. ... The new chip, which is made of gallium arsenide, should be easily scaled and mass-produced, because it's made using microlithography -- the same process that makes microchips. ... --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]