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Nature Physics 3, 220 - 221 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nphys585

Quantum computing: In the 'death zone'?

Wim van Dam1

  1. Wim van Dam is in the Departments of Computer Science and Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. e-mail: vandam@cs.ucsb.edu


An event advertised as the first demonstration of a commercial quantum computer raises the question of how far one can go with a 'do not care' attitude towards imperfections, without losing the quantum advantage.

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