Bednarz writes "Scientists have demonstrated what is being called the 'ultimate miniaturization of mainframe memory,' storing data for nearly two seconds in the nucleus of an atom of phosphorus. The hybrid quantum memory execution is a key step in the progress of quantum computers, according to regulation to the national Science Foundation. An international team of scientists demonstrated that quantum advice stored in a nucleus has a days of about 1¾ seconds. 'This is significant because before this skill was developed, the longest researchers could save quantum inside story* in silicon was a few tens of milliseconds. Other researchers cogitation quantum auditing afresh calculated that if a quantum system could store dossier for at least one second, error correction techniques could then protect that data for an indefinite period of time.'" Here's the NSF press release with big screen* of the apparatus. They claim that this style is promising because it "uses silicon technology" seems a bit of a stretch — the silicon the researchers employed was a painstakingly grown crystal of extremely high purity.

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