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In 1959, the quantum physicist and later Nobel laureate Richard Feynman gave a much-cited lecture which outlined how future technologies could operate on a micro- and nanoscopic scale (scales of one thousandth or one millionth of a millimetre, respectively). The talk was entitled “There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”. Feynman’s vision was very concrete: he predicted that man would soon be able to manipulate matter down to the level of individual atoms.
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There exist a variety of different concepts for building quantum computer (see Chap. 4). Some of these actually use entire ensembles of particles, but ensembles which behave like single quantum particles.
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Quantum Manifesto—A New Era of Technology, available from http://qurope.eu/system/files/u7/93056_Quantum%20Manifesto_WEB.pdf.
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Preface to G. J. Milburn, Schrodinger’s Machines: The Quantum Technology Reshaping Everyday Life, W. H. Freeman (1997).
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Jaeger, L. (2018). There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom: A New Generation of Quantum Technologies. In: The Second Quantum Revolution. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98824-5_2
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