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![a circular structure with a shiny gold metal supports and silvery white wires runing throughout - it almost looks like a chandelier. At the very bottom there is a dark rectangle that all the wires seem to connect to, the quantum-processing chip.](https://www.snexplores.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1600_Quantum_computing_feat-869x580.jpg)
A quantum computer may look like a futuristic sculpture, but most of what you see is machinery used to keep the device a hair above absolute zero. The part that does the computing is the small rectangle near the bottom.
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