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(2) can be very relevant to material science and chemistry. Those things have huge ranges of important practical applications. For example, people currently st
by staunton 3y ago
(2) can be very relevant to material science and chemistry. Those things have huge ranges of important practical applications.
For example, people currently struggle to do accurate calculations of the band structures of materials and it doesn't look like there will be much progress there using only classical computers (using more computing power or better approximation tricks). Big enough quantum computers could do this. Band structure calculations are very interesting for pretty much all semiconductor development.
- knorker 3y agoIndeed. That's what I meant by my example of indirect benefit. Simulating physical systems better, faster, and more completely, can have many practical applications. But unless you're already today trying to simulate physical systems like that, then QC probably won't help you one bit.