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Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by bramathon on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:55AM (#38822708)
Quantum computers have not yet achieved any practical application. What they have achieved is performing highly specialized tasks like random circuit sampling or quantum simulation which would be too difficult for even the largest classical computers. While these tasks are highly tailored to the machines and effectively useless in the real world, they are exciting as they are demonstration that these devices can perform computations beyond classical. Turning this computing power towards practical use-cases is more challenging, but something we are likely to see in the next few years. The first applications will likely be ones like quantum chemistry where the problem is inherently quantum mechanical and thus maps more naturally to a quantum computer, or quantum-enhanced classical algorithms which lean heavily on classical solvers combined with quantum. The most important quantum algorithms require error-corrected qubits, which are some ways away but current devices are starting to demonstrate this at a small scale.
Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by smegsicle on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:41AM (#38822887)
t. llm
Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by Koshkin on Sunday December 31, 2023 @10:09AM (#38824534)
Might as well be
Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by golol on Sunday December 31, 2023 @05:35AM (#38823054)
Could one say that they are basically performing certain physical experiments with particles, and obtaining measurements which would be extremely hard to obtain via classical simulations? Or is that a mischaracterization?
Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by ghaff on Sunday December 31, 2023 @05:38AM (#38823067)
Not really wrong but using quantum effects to basically model real-world quantum systems is only a subset of potential applications.
Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by samstave on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:31PM (#38835530)
You might like this interview on Lex Fridman with:

Guillaume Verdon (aka Beff Jezos on Twitter) is a physicist, quantum computing researcher, and founder of e/acc (effective accelerationism) movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fEEbKJoNbU

Re:What has quantum computing achieved so far? by bee_rider on Monday January 01, 2024 @12:43PM (#38833575)
Quantum computing seems very special-case.

I wonder if it is sucking up all the oxygen in the room for “quantum” and “computing” in a sentence together. Classical computing that uses quantum effects seems more useful IMO. Quantum computing algorithms are too hard, let’s do quantum dot cellular automata instead.