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The 20th century has been profoundly influenced by the development of fast, automated, information processing. One of the ground-breaking concepts that made many of the daunting theoretical and practical problems of such information processing tractable is this: the details of the physical device used for a computation do not matter – all ‘useful’ computers, no matter how they physically operate, are equivalent in terms of the classes of problems they can solve.
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Ballance, C.J. (2017). Introduction. In: High-Fidelity Quantum Logic in Ca+. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68216-7_1
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