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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Scalable and targeted benchmarking of quantum computers

Timothy J Proctor, Kenneth Rudinger, Mohan Sarovar, Erik Nielsen, Kevin C Young, Robin Blume-Kohout

Published Mar 15, 2021• 0 citations
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