informimin

Informimin is a term used in speculative discussions and educational demonstrations to designate a hypothetical mineral that embodies information at the atomic or lattice level. It is not a discovered mineral, and no material with this name has been verified in geological catalogs or materials databases. The concept arose in thought experiments about the physical limits of information storage and processing within solid matter.

Informimin is named by combining 'information' with 'mineral' to emphasize a stable, crystalline substrate in which information carriers can be integrated into the lattice.

Its imagined structure features a crystalline lattice with engineered defect or dopant sites acting as two-level systems that could encode binary data. The hypothetical design emphasizes low thermal noise, long coherence or retention times, and high information density, consistent with ongoing discussions of information storage limits at the atomic scale.

Proposed readout and control schemes for informimin in theory include spin-based or charge-based encoding, with optical or electrical spectroscopy used to read and manipulate the states.

Practical status: no experimental synthesis or discovery has been demonstrated. The idea is used mainly as a pedagogical tool, in speculative fiction, and as a benchmark in discussions of physical information limits rather than as a realized material.

See also: Landauer's principle, quantum memory, defect centers in solids.