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IBM Builds A Limited Quantum Computer

Posted by chrisd on from the soon-your-pgp-key-will-be-useless dept.

phr1 writes "IBM has announced and Yahoo has noted that the first working implementation of Shor's factoring algorithm. Using NMR techniques they built a seven-qubit quantum computer and factored the number 15 into the factors 3 and 5. This is by far the most complicated quantum computation ever done. It's quite an amazing feat--many people thought quantum computing was just a theoretical curiosity and Shor's algorithm could never be implemented in practice."

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  1. Re:An Introduction... by jsse · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    An Introduction to to Quantum Computing for Non-Physicists [lanl.gov] - Available in PDF, PostScript, and others.

    Thank you for the great article, merely by reading the title it's definitely for me.

    However, there's still far too many mathematics symbols in there which I don't understand. Do you have other articles for non-Physicists and non-Mathematics?