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** David Cory, Amr Fahmy and Timothy Havel, and at the same time Neil Gershenfeld and Isaac L. Chuang at MIT published the first papers realising gates for quantum computers based on bulk spin resonance, or thermal ensembles.

The technology is based on a nuclear magnetic resonance ( NMR ) machine, which is similar to the medical magnetic resonance imaging machine.