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luckily photons are boson (if we ever pushes things to this level of extreme)
by moelf 1y ago
luckily photons are boson (if we ever pushes things to this level of extreme)
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- Taek 1y agoThis comment appears insightful but I have no idea what it means. Can someone elaborate?
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- scheme271 1y agoElectrons are fermions which means that two electrons can't occupy the same quantum state (Pauli exclusion principle). Bosons don't have the limit so I believe that implies that you can have stronger signals at the low end since you can have multiple photons conveying or storing the same information.
- xeonmc 1y agoAlso less chance for external interference.
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- cycomanic 1y agoWhat the previous poster is implying is that electrons interact much more strongly than photons. Hence electrons are very good for processing (e.g. building a transistor), while photons are very good for information transfer. This is also a reason why much of the traditional "optical computer" research was fundamentally flawed, just from first principles one could estimate that power requirements are prohibitive.
- nullc 1y ago> This is also a reason why much of the traditional "optical computer" research was fundamentally flawed presumably also because photons at wavelengths we can work with are BIG
- xeonmc 1y agoFermions can “hit each other” whereas bosons “pass through each other”. (Strong emphasis on the looseness of the scare quotes.)