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Quantum Information Science: Emerging No More

Quantum Physics 2013-04-30 v2

Abstract

Short history of quantum information science. The chief message is that the field is no longer emerging. It has arrived.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1302.1864,
  title  = {Quantum Information Science: Emerging No More},
  author = {Carlton M. Caves},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.1864},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

An edited version will appear in Centennial History of the Optical Society, to be published by the Optical Society of America on the occasion of OSA's 100th anniversary. Version 2 changes one phrase regarding quantum error correction, to make clear the role of fault tolerance, and includes a list of the Reviews of Modern Physics articles referred to in the text

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