https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1604.02265/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12123220urn:hackerpapers:mention:1604.02265:12123220Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:28:53 GMT<p>This is because it just got published in Nature something, the earlier open arXiv version from April is here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02265 Figure 3 is absolutely spectacular, and deserves to be admired by the whole world. A comment on the inevitable promises of revolutionized data storage: Yes the areal density is fantastically high (&gt;500Tbit / square inch as opposed to 1Tbit/in^2 in bleeding edge HDDs / NAND flash, if I crunched the numbers correctly). But it requires ultrahigh vacuum, preparation of a clean copper crystal, dosing with copper chloride and then writing/reading with a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1604.02265/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.mes-hallhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12120518urn:hackerpapers:mention:1604.02265:12120518Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:14:57 GMT<p>open arXiv version from April: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.02265 Figure 3 is absolutely spectacular, and deserves to be admired by the whole world. A comment on the inevitable promises of revolutionized data storage: Yes the areal density is fantastically high (&gt;500Tbit / square inch as opposed to 1Tbit/in^2 in bleeding edge HDDs / NAND flash). But it requires ultrahigh vacuum, preparation of a clean copper crystal, dosing with copper chloride and then writing/reading with a scanning tunneling microscope, maintaining liquid nitrogen temperature. Also a modern SSD will write about 500MB in a…</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1604.02265/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cond-mat.mes-hall