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Can single atom store more information than a bit?
by intricatedetail 6y ago
Can single atom store more information than a bit?
- morlockabove 6y agoEach electron present in one of the atom's orbitals is a bit, so yeah. More realistically, the simplest atom- one proton, one electron- has 3 integer numbers associated with the state of the electron. You need more than a bit to describe the state of that system, so yeah.
- acomjean 6y agoDNA is made up of 4 main components (G,C,A and T). Very generally these encode instructions for making proteins. Those blocks are very small, less than 20 Atoms. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenine They’re working on using it for storage. (very slow read write times). Duplicating shouldn’t be a problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage