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  3. [A] Using a pair of charged particles, group leader Christopher Monroe and his team place each in a vacuum and keep them in posi

[A] Using a pair of charged particles, group leader Christopher Monroe and his team place each in a vacuum and keep them in posi

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问题    [A] Using a pair of charged particles, group leader Christopher Monroe and his team place each in a vacuum and keep them in position with electric fields. An ultra-fast laser pulse triggers the atoms to emit photons simultaneously. If the photons interact in just the right way, their parent atoms enter a quantum state known as entanglement, in which atom B adopts the properties of atom A even though they’re in separate chambers a meter apart. When A is measured, the information that had been previously encoded on it disappears in accordance with the rules of the quantum world. But all is not lost: because B is entangled with A, B now contains the information that was once carried on A. That information, in a very real sense, has been teleported.
   [B] Physics and magic aren’t often mistaken, but increasingly, physicists themselves seem to be trying to change that. Last year, a team at the University of California announced that it had developed materials that could lead to an invisibility clothing. Last month, a team of scientists from the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) has joined the fun. The current object of their research? Teleportation.
   [C] Gordon Moore was rewarded for his prescience with a sort of immortality: the famed "Moore’s Law" is one of the venerable truths of the computer world. The rest of us were rewarded with ever faster and ever smaller computers. At some point soon, however, miniaturization will reach a point that’s too tiny to be practical. It’s then, many hope, that what’s known as quantum computing—based on information-sharing particles—will take over.
   [D] Depending on your favorite science fiction stories, teleportation is either a very bad idea or a very cool one. For scientists, it’s just very complex, so much so that at this point, teleportation is not a matter of moving matter but one of transporting information. Already, physicists have been able to exchange information between light particles or atoms, so long as they were right next to each other. The current experiment marks the first in which information has traveled a significant distance—1 meter—between two isolated atoms.
   [E] Quantum-computing technology, however, holds a lot more potential than that, if only because of its massive information-storage capacity. One of the marvelous little wrinkles of the quantum world is a condition known as superposition, in which a particle can occupy two states at the same time. Thus, the capacity of a computer can be doubled with the application of the new technology.
   [F] O.K., so parents might not be inviting the JQI team to perform at their kids’ birthday parties anytime soon, but what the quantum trick lacks in showmanship, it makes up for in practical applications for future computers. In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a computer chip would double every two years—which is precisely what has happened.
   [G] The next step for the JQI team is to improve the photons’ precision and the rate of communication between the particles. What we won’t see soon—or ever, according to Monroe—is a device that can teleport humans from one point to another. "There’s way too many atoms," says Monroe. "At the other end of the transporter, you need to have some blob of atoms that represents the object being teleported, which is not possible now. I mean, what would that look like?"
   
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答案E
解析 上一段(即C)末尾提到发展量子计算技术的趋势(quantum computing)。E开头即出现Quantumcomputing technology，与上文形成呼应。上一段讲到计算机的发展趋势是速度越来越快，外形越来越小，而照此趋势，计算机发展到一定程度最终将可能迭代为量子计算机，可见量子计算技术的一大特点就是信息量大；E首句通过转折，指出除此之外，量子计算技术还有其他潜能，其中its massive information-storage capacity与上段表达的信息吻合。E与上文衔接紧密，故为本题答案。
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