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Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing — mentioned by kvathupo

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:45:25 GMT

Although I'm not up to date on the most recent industry developments, I'd say to be less concerned about the number of qubits, and more concerned about the gate fidelity and qubit coherence. Certainly, you want a quantum computer that you can actually use [1]! It's also important to distinguish between the adiabatic quantum computing of companies like D-Wave with their many qubits and the gate-based quantum computing of Google, IonQ, IBM, etc. with their fewer qubits. [1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03137

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Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing — mentioned by kvathupo

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 17:45:31 GMT

Frankly, the article reads as if the author has an axe to grind. On utility, there's more than just Shor's: unstructured search [1], finance ([2], [3]). Even if quantum computers ultimately prove unfruitful commercially, that doesn't render it a useless endeavor. Like String Theory, it can beget findings in other areas, regardless of whether you can profit from them: novel classical recommendation algorithms ([4]), quantum algorithms for SAT that could possibly help automated theorem proving ([5]). Part of the difficulty of quantum computing is that to show speedup, you need to find…

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Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing — HN submission

Sat, 26 Feb 2022 08:35:54 GMT

Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing

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Application-Oriented Performance Benchmarks for Quantum Computing — mentioned by kvathupo

Tue, 16 Nov 2021 20:12:01 GMT

With the caveat that the paper is from a competitor that I like, this benchmark paper [1] makes me inclined to disregard this result. See figure 1. __EDIT:__ whoops wrong figure, just read section iv or see the first figure here [2] [1] - https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.03137 [2] - https://ionq.com/posts/october-18-2021-benchmarking-our-next...

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