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A brief history of Quantum computers

A brief history of Quantum computers: 1905: Albert Einstein explains the photoelectric effect and suggests that light consists of quantum particles or photons 1924: Max Born uses the term quantum mechanics for the first time 1925: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan formulate matrix mechanics, the first formulation of quantum mechanics 1925-1927: Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg develop the Copenhagen interpretation, one of the earliest and most common interpretations of quantum mechanics 1930: Paul Dirac publishes The Principles of Quantum Mechanics, a standard textbook on quantum theory 1935: Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, and Nathan Rosen publish a paper highlighting the counterintuitive nature of quantum superposition and arguing that quantum mechanics is incomplete 1935: Erwin Schrödinger develops a thought experiment involving a cat that is simultaneously dead and alive, and coins the term “quantum entanglement” 1944: John von Neumann publishes Mathemati