quantum cell wire

quantum cell wire

(electronics, computing)(Or "quantum wire", "binary wire")Quantum cells arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacentcells with the same orientation are at a low energy state anda change of orientation at one end of a quantum wirepropagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However,unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of chargepairs changes, no current flows.

Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to asQuantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see quantum dot,Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.

http://mitre.org/research/nanotech/quantum_dot_cell.html.

["Quantum Dot Heterostructures", D. Bimberg, et al, John Wiley& Sons Ltd., Dec 1998]