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Quantum leaps in small steps

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Only long-term commitment can ensure that quantum information science eventually fulfils its promise of revolutionizing information-based societies.

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  1. Tommaso Calarco is at the Institute for Quantum Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069 Ulm, Germany,

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  2. Philippe Grangier is at the Institut d'Optique, Campus Polytechnique, RD128, F-91127 Palaiseau, France,

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  3. Andreas Wallraff is at the Department of Physics, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland,

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  4. Peter Zoller is at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.,

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