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 In 1982, Richard Feynman, motivated by the difficulty of simulating
 quantum-mechanical systems on classical hardware, put forward the
-idea of building computers from quantum hardware themselves
+idea of building computers that are themselves quantum mechanical
 \cite{feynman_simulating_1982}.
 The use of such quantum computers has since been shown to offer promising
 prospects not only with regard to simulating quantum systems but also