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Published online 19 June 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020617-3

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Silicon quantum computer

A quantum computer might be built using today's technologies.

A quantum computer - a new kind of computer far more powerful than any that currently exist - could be made today, say Thaddeus Ladd of Stanford University , Kohei Itoh of Keio University in Japan, and their co-workers. They have sketched a blueprint for a silicon quantum computer that could be built using current fabrication and measurement techniques1.

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