Back of the Envelope

There's an interesting article on a superconducting quantum computation scheme here, in the EE Times. Be forewarned, while I'm not too familiar with this particular project, I have read about some of the experiments and I'm fairly knowledgeable about superconducting quantum computation in general. I saw a lot of things in this article that seemed fishy or flat out wrong. I don't think it's dishonesty on the part of the researchers, aside from the usual hype about their research, so much as the author's limited knowledge about quantum computation and superconductivity in general. I'll let you know more once I have a chance to read the papers. Maybe I'll do a fisking of the EE Times article.