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A big step towards construction of a massively powerful quantum computer has taken place, following research by a team of UK-based physicists and engineers.
The experiment was performed by PhD students Alberto Politi and Jonathan Matthews, currently doing research at University of Bristol's Centre for Quantum Photonics.
The mathematical computation investigated ways to find the prime factors of 15, which although trivial, points the way to more important quantum-based calculations, once the hardware can be scaled up to herald fully functional optical quantum compute systems. The system outputs the correct prime factors of 15 as three and five.
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