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Re:Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer by codeulike on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:29AM (#24304045)
I get the impression no-one really knows because the potential capabilities and engineering realities knock up against the limits of what we understand. They are experimental machines that work in a way we barely understand. So maybe something really revolutionary, or maybe just more efficient Netflix recommendations.
Re:Hartree-Fock on a superconducting qubit quantum computer by anthony_r on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:56AM (#24304277)
There's pretty good understanding on how quantum mechanics works (for decades), and you can easily write theoretical algorithms for such computers. It can be all expressed with matrix multiplications. See Shor's algorithm for an example.