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What gives quantum computers that extra oomph over their classical digital counterparts? An intrinsic, measurable aspect of quantum mechanics called contextuality, it now emerges. See Article p.351

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  1. Stephen D. Bartlett is at the Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems and the School of Physics, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia.,

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