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== Big picture ==


{| class="sortable wikitable"
! Time period !! Development summary
|-
| 1960 || Stephen Wiesner invents conjugate coding.
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| 1995 || Christopher Monroe and David Wineland at NIST (Boulder, Colorado) experimentally realize the first quantum logic gate – the controlled-NOT gate – with trapped ions, following the Cirac-Zoller proposal. <ref>{{Cite journal
 | title=Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate
 | journal=Physical Review Letters
 | volume=75
 | issue=25
 | pages=4714–4717
 | date=December 18, 1995
 | url=http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/140.pdf
 | accessdate=December 29, 2007
 | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4714
 | pmid=10059979
 | bibcode=1995PhRvL..75.4714M| last1=Monroe
 | first1=C
 | last2=Meekhof
 | first2=D. M
 | last3=King
 | first3=B. E
 | last4=Itano
 | first4=W. M
 | last5=Wineland
 | first5=D. J
 }}</ref>
|-
| 2012 || John Preskill coins the term "quantum supremacy" to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t.<ref name="quantum supremacy">{{Cite news|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/|title=Why I Coined the Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’|work=Wired|access-date=2020-02-22|language=en|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>
|-
| 2017-03-04 || Quantum volume is proposed as a measure of the power of quantum computers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|url=https://storageconsortium.de/content/sites/default/files/quantum-volumehp08co1vbo0cc8fr.pdf|title=Quantum Volume|date=2017-03-04|work=|access-date=2020-02-22|url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| 2019-08 || Google uses a device with 53 qubits to solve a carefully chosen problem in 3 minutes 20 seconds, which took 2.5 days to solve with a classical computer.<ref name="quantum supremacy"/>
|}

== Full timeline ==

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing

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