Comparison With Quantum Computers
It is a common misconception that quantum computers are NTMs. It is believed but has not been proven that the power of quantum computers is incomparable to that of NTMs. That is, problems likely exist that an NTM could efficiently solve but that a quantum computer cannot. A likely example of problems solvable by NTMs but not by quantum computers in polynomial time are NP-complete problems.
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