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Towards a Scalable Quantum Computing Platform in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime

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Since its idealistic proposal to build a computing machine using quantum mechanics by the aspiring physicist, Richard P. Feynman, in the 1980s (Feynman in Int J Theor Phys 21:467, 1982 [1]), the term “quantum computer” becomes a holy grail of many physicists, computer scientists, and engineers, because it promises speedup and robust computational power over its classical counterparts.

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Kyaw, T.H. (2019). Introduction. In: Towards a Scalable Quantum Computing Platform in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19658-5_1

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