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These devices mimic interferometers in Aaronson and Arkhipov’s boson-sampling problem. These devices can perform an analog of simulated annealing via slow evolution of the Hamiltonian that makes them “adiabatic.” Andrew Steane developed a scheme that avoids constraints imposed on these devices by the no-cloning (20[1])theorem. Components of these devices are represented as points on Bloch spheres, in which a reflection over a diagonal axis is induced by (20[1])a Hadamard gate. (*) EPR pairs can enable information transfer in these devices. These devices have achieved “supremacy” while operating at near-zero temperatures via entanglement. For 10 points, (10[1])name these computers that store information in superposition with qubits. ■END■

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