MilestoneHardwareConfirmed
First quantum algorithms run on small NMR quantum computers
Jan 1998
In January 1998, Jonathan Jones and Michele Mosca at Oxford, and Isaac Chuang's team at IBM, Stanford and MIT, report running the simplest version of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm on two-qubit machines whose qubits are atomic nuclei in molecules, controlled with nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR).
Why it matters
These were among the first quantum algorithms ever run on hardware, and by May 1998 the Oxford group had also run Grover's search algorithm on an NMR machine.
Jonathan A. Jones · Michele Mosca · Isaac L. Chuang · Oxford · IBM · Stanford · MIT
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Sources (4)
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arXiv (Jones and Mosca)
Implementation of a Quantum Algorithm to Solve Deutsch's Problem on a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Quantum Computer
“We demonstrate the use of an NMR quantum computer based on the pyrimidine base cytosine, and the implementation of a quantum algorithm to solve Deutsch's problem.”
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arXiv (Chuang, Vandersypen, Zhou, Leung and Lloyd)
Experimental realization of a quantum algorithm
“Nuclear magnetic resonance techniques are used to realize a quantum algorithm experimentally.”
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Nature
Experimental realization of a quantum algorithm
“no quantum algorithm has yet been implemented with these systems. Here we report the experimental realization of a quantum algorithm using a bulk nuclear magnetic resonance technique”
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Nature
Implementation of a quantum search algorithm on a quantum computer
“NMR quantum computers have recently been used to solve a simple quantum algorithm—the two-bit Deutsch problem7,8. Here we show experimentally that such a computer can be used to implement a non-trivial fast quantum search algorithm initially developed by Grover”
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