{"id":202210,"date":"2017-03-09T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=202210"},"modified":"2017-03-09T16:17:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T14:17:37","slug":"ibm-stores-data-on-a-single-atom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/202210-ibm-stores-data-on-a-single-atom.html","title":{"rendered":"IBM stores data on a single atom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/ibm-researchers-store-data-on-worlds-smallest-magnet----a-single-atom-300420581.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>has created<\/strong><\/a> the world&#8217;s smallest magnet using a single atom, and used it to store\u00a0one bit of data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Currently, hard disk drives use about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit,&#8221; said IBM.<\/p>\n<p>The ability to read and write one bit on one atom creates &#8220;new possibilities for developing smaller and denser storage devices&#8221;, said the company.<\/p>\n<p>IBM said an example of the smaller drives could be a credit-card-sized device which can store &#8220;the entire iTunes library of 35 million songs&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough in storage technology was made possible by IBM&#8217;s\u00a0Nobel prize-winning scanning tunneling microscope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Future scanning tunneling microscope studies will investigate the potential of performing quantum information processing using individual magnetic atoms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2laKpYWIa5I\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/science\/201680-an-easy-way-to-control-robots-with-your-brain.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">An easy way to control robots with your brain<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has created the world&#8217;s smallest magnet using a single atom, and used it to store one bit of data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":202212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31750],"tags":[835],"class_list":["post-202210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-ibm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202216,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202210\/revisions\/202216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}