3月11日，中国科学技术大学潘建伟、朱晓波、龚明与北京大学袁骁合作，作为共同通讯作者带领多家科研机构，上百人研究团队在物理学顶级期刊《Nature Physics》上报道了一维与二维簇态在拓扑相模拟及测量的量子计算中的应用。 量子纠缠是量子信息处理的基本 ...

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