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Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer

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Combining the best of analog and digital approaches could yield a full-scale multipurpose quantum computer.

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Ball, P. Google moves closer to a universal quantum computer. Nature (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2016.20032

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