Understanding it would be a sidebar to the matter of atomic clocks as chronographs,[1] moreover as a student of a certain digital electronics course at an online U, but I wonder if they could make a digital circuit using an atomic clock? Something about rate of clock pulse -- and sure, I can "Do my own research" just like "My own homework". For instance, there's something about MIT's AI Labs, it was called CADR, a successor to the CONS machine, both being "Lisp Machines". I understand that the schematics for CADR are formally in the public domain, now? In contemporary circuitry, there's the PRU-ICSS on the MCU used by the BeagleBone Black single board computer -- the PRU-ICSS modules, two of each on that MCU, those can run at different clock rates, as denoted in TI's own data sheets, which TI publishes.
I wonder, then, could innovations in atomic timekeeping affect digital circuit design, positively? Like, atoms -- the new germanium, perhaps? In a sense, towards transitorising the atom? [2] I'm sure MIT's physicists would be more capable than I to understand how that could go, though, LoL LoL
[1] http://www.nature.com/news/quantum-network-would-be-most-precise-clock-yet-1.15406
[2] http://www.wired.com/2012/02/sa-transistor/ -- there's a reason why they chose Phosophorous as the element of that atom, it being not an arbitrary thing, no doubt. One observes then, that that article includes a bibliographical reference too -- not sure it's too high level for the classes I'm in, though, quite seriously.
Further resources in theories of quantum computing, "Beyond punched cards"
- Papers of John Von Neumann. US Library of Congress. PDF Edition.
- On an Algebraic Generalization of the Quantum Mechanical Formalism site:loc.gov. Google. Web search.
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