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Editorial use only .IBM Q quantum computer research. The IBM Q Network explores practical applications of quantum computing for business and science, offering organizations access via the IBM Cloud to the most advanced and scalable universal quantum computing systems available. At right is an IBM Q quantum computer. Quantum computers are based on quantum mechanics and the principle of representing information using quantum properties, storing and manipulating data in units known as qubits, the basic unit of quantum information. This has the potential to massively increase computing power. Photographed on 1 December 2017, at the IBM Q computation center at the Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. (KEYSTONE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Connie Zhou/IBM RESEARCH/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)