{"id":121396,"date":"2021-04-09T23:24:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/quantifying-utility-of-quantum-computers"},"modified":"2021-04-09T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T06:24:57","slug":"quantifying-utility-of-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/quantifying-utility-of-quantum-computers","title":{"rendered":"Quantifying Utility of Quantum Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/quantifying-utility-of-quantum-computers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although universal fault-tolerant quantum computers \u2013 with millions of physical quantum bits (or qubits) \u2013 may be a decade or two away, quantum computing research continues apace. It has been hypothesized that quantum computers will one day revolutionize information processing across a host of military and civilian applications from pharmaceuticals discovery, to advanced batteries, to machine learning, to cryptography. A key missing element in the race toward fault-tolerant quantum systems, however, is meaningful metrics to quantify how useful or transformative large quantum computers will actually be once they exist.<\/p>\n<p>To provide standards against which to measure quantum computing progress and drive current research toward specific goals, DARPA announced its <a href=\"https:\/\/go.usa.gov\/xHcke\">Quantum Benchmarking<\/a> program. Its aim is to re-invent key quantum computing metrics, make those metrics testable, and estimate the required quantum and classical resources needed to reach critical performance thresholds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really about developing quantum computing yardsticks that can accurately measure what\u2019s important to focus on in the race toward large, fault-tolerant quantum computers,\u201d said Joe Altepeter, program manager in DARPA\u2019s Defense Sciences Office. \u201cBuilding a useful quantum computer is really hard, and it\u2019s important to make sure we\u2019re using the right metrics to guide our progress towards that goal. If building a useful quantum computer is like building the first rocket to the moon, we want to make sure we\u2019re not quantifying progress toward that goal by measuring how high our planes can fly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although universal fault-tolerant quantum computers \u2013 with millions of physical quantum bits (or qubits) \u2013 may be a decade or two away, quantum computing research continues apace. It has been hypothesized that quantum computers will one day revolutionize information processing across a host of military and civilian applications from pharmaceuticals discovery, to advanced batteries, to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,9,1617,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-military","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}