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Researchers at NIST demonstrated a controlled-NOT gate using the internal and motional states of a single trapped ion. It showed that a basic quantum computer operation could be built; one gate on one ion was not yet a computer.

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  1. Demonstration of a fundamental quantum logic gate ↗

    Monroe et al., Physical Review Letters (1995) · Accessed 2026-10-18

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