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| | CQC Intros: Quantum Computing |
 | | These are further states, which in general have no classical analogues, in which the atom represents both values, 0 and 1, simultaneously. |
 | | For example, if the qubits are atoms then suitably tuned laser pulses affect their electronic states and evolve initial superpositions of encoded numbers into different superpositions. |
 | | When the physics of computation was first investigated systematically in the 1970s, the main fear was that quantum-mechanical effects might place fundamental bounds on the accuracy with which physical objects could realise the properties of bits, logic gates, the composition of operations, and so on, which appear in the abstract and mathematicallysophisticated theory of computation. |
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