Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques are used to realize a quantum algorithm experimentally. The algorithm allows a simple NMR quantum computer to determine global properties of an unknown function requiring fewer function ``calls'' than is possible using a classical computer.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9801037,
title = {Experimental realization of a quantum algorithm},
author = {Isaac L. Chuang and Lieven M. K. Vandersypen and Xinlan Zhou and Debbie W. Leung and Seth Lloyd},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9801037},
year = {2009}
}
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4 pages, 3 figures, mypsfig2, revtex, revised version (no major changes), published in Nature, 393, 143-146 (1998)