When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon fifty years ago, Zeev Valentine Vardeny was a young man living in Israel. The “space race” was palpable at the time. The “race” for ever-increasing technological innovation is profoundly felt in Israel. Putting brain power to work to maintain Israel’s safety is nothing short of a national mission.

Distinguished Professor of Physics & Astronomy Zeev Valentine Vardeny at the University of Utah in is certainly an All-Star of physics. While most Utahns have never heard of him, Vardeny opened up an entirely new branch of physics. He has helped innovate significant advances leading to OLED (organic LEDs), organic spin-wave and technology. If these aren’t familiar then next time you look at your organic LED flat-screen TVs or put your 96 gig flash memory card in your computer, just know that Vardeny and his work are a key part of that technology.

His field of Solid State Physics refers to how electrons behave when traveling through materials. Electrons flow through all of our electrical devices to provide them power. Computers transmit information and energy, but they also produce heat.

Vardeny says, " Using spintronic technology will help pave the way for vast changes in computer abilities that are known as quantum computers. First off. In regular computers the bits of regular computers are either a one or a zero. But if you have a quantum computer the bits can have infinite possibilities. There is an infinite number of numbers between zero and one.”

The Department of Defense is spending a lot of money is in using quantum computers and spin waves to create an entirely new form of communication.