To the untrained eye, a circuit built with IBM’s online Quantum Experience tool looks like something out of an introductory computer-science course. Logic gates, the building blocks of computation, are arrayed on a digital canvas, transforming inputs into outputs.
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Nature 591, 166-167 (2021)
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00533-x
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