The burgeoning field of quantum information science is not only about building a working device. Already we can learn a lot by thinking about how computation works under the rule of quantum mechanics.
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Aaronson, S. Why quantum chemistry is hard. Nature Phys 5, 707–708 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1415
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1415