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"Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that would take a classical computer longer than the age of the universe."

Almost two years ago Rainer Blatt's and Christan Roos' research groups from the University of Innsbruck recreated the properties of a particle moving close to speed of light in a quantum system. They encoded the state of the particle into a highly cooled calcium atom and used lasers to manipulate it according to equations proposed by the famous quantum physicist Paul Dirac. The basic principle behind quantum computation is that quantum properties can be used to represent data.