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1. A computation system that makes direct use of quantum-mechanical phenomena, such as superposition and entanglement, to perform operations on data.
   "As of 2015, the development of actual quantum computers is still in its infancy, but experiments have been carried out in which quantum computational operations were executed on a very small number of quantum bits."

Derived forms: quantum computers

Type of: computer, computing device, computing machine, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system

Encyclopedia: Quantum computer