Re:FAQ on Microsoft's topological qubit thing
by cognaitiv on Thursday February 20, 2025 @08:32AM
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Pure Quantum Gradient Descent Algorithm and Full Quantum Variational Eigensolver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.04198
However, even this is extremely theoretical at this time - no quantum computer built so far can execute Grover's algorithm, they are not reliable enough to get any result with probability higher than noise, and anyway can't apply the amount of steps required for even a single pass without losing entanglement. So we are still very very very far away from a quantum computer that could reach anything like the computing performance of a single consumer-grade GPU. We're actually very far away from a quantum computer that even reaches the performance of a hand calculator at this time.