The main challenge in building such a device is to be able to read the data and manipulate it without disturbing the delicate quantum states of the atoms. (discovermagazine.com)
In quantum states particles can have opposing states simultaneously. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Any attempt to measure the system would collapse its delicate quantum state, just as chasing dolphins in a boat would affect their behavior. (discovermagazine.com)