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I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits
by donw 6y ago
I think there's a lot of interesting optimization problems that this could lend weight to. There's a lot of small-ish manufacturers out there pushing the limits of materials science, where being able to leverage quantum computing could be a real advantage.
That said, I'm also curious what this means for attacks against cryptosystems -- something tells me that anything that wasn't secure against various quantum attacks either is, or will shortly be, blown wide open.
- reikonomusha 6y agoQuantum computers do not currently solve any problems of the size or accuracy of interest to any commercial industry that classical computers don’t solve better and faster.
- tempsolution 6y agoWe are years away from any of that. This is a simulator first and foremost, with some basic option to run it on a primitive quantum computer for real. In any case, there are still massive practical hurdles that need to be overcome to make quantum computing useful for any real world scenario. Breaking cryptography will require up to tens of thousands of QBits. What would the use case be for material science?