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Quantum computing

Quantum computing

A decade of Physics World breakthroughs: 2009 – the first quantum computer

29 Nov 2019 Michael Banks

With the Physics World 2019 Breakthrough of the Year due to be announced on 12 December, Physics World journalists look back at the past decade of winners and explore how research in that field has moved on. Here Michael Banks examines the 2009 breakthrough for the first “quantum computer”

Image of a quantum-computer chip
All on a chip: Researchers at the at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado, managed to create the first small-scale device that could be described as a quantum computer. (Courtesy: J Jost/NIST)
“A tour de force” is how physicist Boris Blinov from the University of Washington described rese

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