Quantum Computing Revolution

Zhenghan Wang

Although the current information revolution is still unfolding, the next industrial revolution is already rearing its head. A second quantum revolution based on quantum technology will power this new industrial revolution with quantum computers as its engines. The development of quantum computing will turn quantum theory into quantum technology, hence release the power of quantum phenomena, and exponentially accelerate the progress of science and technology. Building a large-scale quantum computing is at the juncture of science and engineering. Even if large-scale quantum computers become reality, they cannot make the conventional computers obsolete soon. Building a large-scale quantum computer is a daunting complex engineering problem to integrate ultra-low temperature with room temperature and micro-world with macro-world. We have built hundreds of physical qubits already but are still working on logical and topological qubits. Since physical qubits cannot tolerate errors, they cannot be used to perform long precise calculations to solve practically useful problems yet.

Madhusudan Singh Irish Singh, Bharat S. Rawal

Robin Blume-Kohout

Moore publishes his famous paper • 50 components per integrated circuit • Exponential growth takes off, leads to microprocessors Sz computing revolution• IBM, Intel, Google, Rigetti announce -50-qubit processors.• Recent consensus that QC is actually going to work.• Tremendous surge of excitement, funding, commercial activity.• Exponential growth takes off, leads to quanturn computing revolution?

Andreas H. Trabesinger

Mikio Nakahara

Christopher R. Monroe

The Next Technological Revolution is Quantum Quantum Computers are poised to take over where conventional computers and Moore’s Law leave off. This quantum revolution will touch every sector of the economy.