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David Deutsch defines a universal quantum computer
From The Road to Useful Quantum Computing: From Qubits to Error Correction
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David Deutsch defines a universal quantum computer
Deutsch formalised a quantum version of a universal computing machine and showed that quantum computation could be described systematically.
The work moved quantum computing from a simulation idea toward a general computational model. It established that quantum gates and circuits could in principle express arbitrary quantum computations.
