title: Universal Quantum Simulators
abstract: Feynman's 1982 conjecture, that quantum computers can be programmed to simulate any local quantum system, is shown to be correct.
authors.affiliation: The author is at the D'Arbeloff Laboratory for Information Systems and Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: slloyd@mit.edu
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authors.lastname: Lloyd