The strangest storage device I encountered was the short lived
magnetic bubble memory from intel. We had them in stock, but cannot tell whether they were ever sold. I guess they were way too expensive, floppys were cheap and the eeprom was promising. Ah, those were the days ...
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Originally Posted by chaley
I'm also not convinced it is correct to refer to quantum storage as "digital".
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No, you store entanglement states. It is certainly a new area of development. According to my informant:
There are two main types of quantum memory:
- Reservoir qubits: These are qubits that are stored in a special type of material called a quantum memory reservoir. The reservoir qubits are initially in a superposition of 0 and 1. When you want to store a piece of information, you can entangle the reservoir qubits with the qubits of the information you want to store. This will transfer the information to the reservoir qubits.
- Solid-state qubits: These are qubits that are stored in a solid-state material, such as a semiconductor or a superconductor. Solid-state qubits are more compact and scalable than reservoir qubits, but they are also more difficult to control.
But all this is waaaaay