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Quantum computers hold the promise of massive performance enhancements across a range of applications, from cryptography and databases to revolutionary scientific simulation tools. Such computers would make use of the same quantum mechanical phenomena that pose limitations on the continued shrinking of conventional information processing devices. Many of the key requirements for quantum computing differ markedly from those of conventional computers. However, silicon, which plays a central part in conventional information processing, has many properties that make it a superb platform around which to build a quantum computer.
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We thank A. M. Tyryshkin for discussions. J.J.L.M. is supported by the Royal Society and St John's College, Oxford, and acknowledges support from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance (EP/D048559/1) and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)-EPSRC Cooperative Program (EP/H025952/1). D.R.M. is supported by an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (DP1093526). M.A.E. acknowledges support from the Army Research Office (ARO) (W911NF-08-1-0482). S.A.L. acknowledges support from the National Security Agency/Laboratory of Physical Sciences through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (MOD 713106A), the National Science Foundation through the Princeton Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (DMR-0819860) and the ARO through Wisconsin. We apologize to those authors whose work could not be cited owing to space limitations.
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Morton, J., McCamey, D., Eriksson, M. et al. Embracing the quantum limit in silicon computing. Nature 479, 345–353 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10681
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