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Are they saying that their simulations of quantum computers with classical computing aim to break new ground in terms of computation?
by flatline 8y ago
Are they saying that their simulations of quantum computers with classical computing aim to break new ground in terms of computation?
- sgt101 8y agoThey are saying that they want to demonstrate a convincing point from where it's infeasible to use the tactic of breaking new ground classically to simulate quantum devices breaks because the exponential complexity means that the classical devices are beyond our capability as a society, and will remain that way for at least a long time if not forever. At that point having a quantum computer that is constructible and can do these problems is at least valuable for this task. Until then the only point of quantum computers is that it's an interesting idea. But, quantum supremacy is just a first step; simulating quantum devices of various sorts is important science, but there is a long way to go before quantum computing can be implemented that is useful for the rest of the feasible tasks that people talk about using it for. I would like to see a list of the tasks that are understood to be targets for quantum computing and a projected timeline - has anyone got one? When do people in the community believe that we will have a workable device that can do Grover's algorithm for 10^52 bits?