nobel-prize winning physicist [Richard Feynman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman) is given credit as inventing the concept of quantum computers in about ~1982 in the paper [Simulating Physics with computers](http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF02650179). > where is the concept of a quantum computer 1<sup>st</sup> used/appearing in science fiction?