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Published online 24 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021021-4
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Physicists flip a qubit
First step to quantum computation - NOT.
A quantum computer has had its first thought: using quantum-mechanical rules, physicists have carried out a logic operation.
The process is simpler even than adding one and one, and the apparatus used hardly qualifies as a real computer.
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