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Quantum computation: The dreamweaver's abacus

Some experts think that a quantum computation could be plaited like a skein of string. And now they may have found the sorts of string they need, finds Liesbeth Venema.

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Liesbeth Venema is a senior physical sciences editor at Nature. See News & Views, page 823. and Correspondence: A prime problem that even quantum computing can’t solve

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Venema, L. Quantum computation: The dreamweaver's abacus. Nature 452, 803–805 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/452803a

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