Quantum Mirage

In the early 2000 researchers at IBM, Eigler, Hari Manoharan, and Christopher Lutz, first time noticed Quantum Mirage. The term “Quantum Mirage” refers to a phenomenon that will make possible to transfer data without conventional electrical wiring. Instead of forcing charge carriers through solid conductors, a process which very impractical on a microscopic scale, electron wave phenomena are made to produce effective currents. A Quantum Mirage is a spot where electron waves are focused so they reinforce each other

All moving particles have a wavelike nature. It has not much significance on an everyday scale. But in atomic dimensions, where distances are measured in nanometer, moving particles behave like waves. This phenomenon, Quantum Mirage, is what makes the electron microscope workable. 

The quantum mirage uses the wave nature of electrons to move the information, instead of a wire, so it has the potential to enable data transfer within future nano-scale electronic circuits so small that conventional wires do not work. It will be years before this technology becomes practical, but it could eventually yield computers that are many orders of magnitude smaller, faster, and less power-hungry than anything we can conceive today.