I’m guessing you mean in the abstract rather than in the short term, but it’s unclear. In the abstract, the jury is still out. I think many scientists would sa

I’m guessing you mean in the abstract rather than in the short term, but it’s unclear. In the abstract, the jury is still out. I think many scientists would say - yes, provided the hardware guys improve the fidelity of operations and make things scale, it will be possible. But you’re going to need a very large number of qubits to do things like factoring large numbers, and we’re probably going to wait a long time for that. Short term - we’re going to be playing with “toy” examples for now. There’s a lot of focus on achieving “quantum supremacy”, which is a silly term, and finding things small enough and resilient enough to hardware limitations that are also mildly interesting.