Figure 1 (IMAGE)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

Figure 1

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The four stages of the actual experiment on a quantum computer mirror the stages of the thought experiment involving an electron in space and the imaginary analogy with billiard balls. Each of the three systems initially evolves from order toward chaos, but then a perfectly timed external disturbance reverses this process.

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