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Ethics

Towards a quantum advantage

05 Feb 2020
Taken from the February 2020 issue of Physics World.

Leonie Mueck, Carmen Palacios-Berraquero and Divya M Persaud argue that the term “quantum supremacy” should be replaced in favour of one that is more responsible

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Language matters Using a problematic term while ignoring its historical context can be dangerous. (Courtesy: iStock/sakkmesterke)
In 2012 the theoretical physicist John Preskill from the California Institute of Technology coined t

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Leonie Mueck is vice president of product strategy and communications at Riverlane in Cambridge, UK, Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is founder and chief executive of Nu Quantum in Cambridge, and Divya M Persaud is a planetary scientist at University College London
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