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Centre for Quantum Computation

A chance meeting on the ski slopes of the Alps with John Rarity, a scientist at DERA (the UK’s military research organisation), led to a collaboration in which Ekert’s scheme was tested experimentally in the early 90's.

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A breakthrough in 1994 by Peter Shor, a researcher at the labs of the American telecommunications giant AT&T, boosted the entire field of quantum information.

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In 1995, Andrew Steane began an experimental effort to study how quantum computers might be built from ionised atoms trapped by laser beams.

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In 1996, Jonathan Jones started a group working on a quantum computer based on the same techniques used in magnetic resonance imaging in medicine.

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And two years later, Dirk Bouwmeester arrived from Geneva to begin an experimental group working out how the quantum world could also revolutionise communication.

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