The Turing machine, an abstract computer conceived half a century ago as a test of what might be computable, has been overtaken by an idealized quantum computer, which also has drawbacks.
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Maddox, J. Towards the quantum computer?. Nature 316, 573 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1038/316573a0
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