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Universal Programmable Quantum Information Processor
In the future, quantum computers will accomplish in seconds what would take years with our best computers today. Physicists at NIST have made a significant leap towards this goal by demonstrating the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor. This is the first time anyone has developed a processor that can handle any set of instructions for more than one quantum bit or "qubit". The team has made rapid progress considering that the first single task quantum processor was developed less than a year ago. The NIST team performed 160 different processing routines on the two qubits. Although there are an infinite number of possible two-qubit programs, this set of 160 was large and diverse enough to fairly represent them, making the processor "universal".
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In the future, quantum computers will accomplish in seconds what would take years with our best computers today. Physicists at NIST have made a significant leap towards this goal by demonstrating the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor. This is the first time anyone has developed a processor that can handle any set of instructions for more than one quantum bit or "qubit". The team has made rapid progress considering that the first single task quantum processor was developed less than a year ago. The NIST team performed 160 different processing routines on the two qubits. Although there are an infinite number of possible two-qubit programs, this set of 160 was large and diverse enough to fairly represent them, making the processor "universal". 
