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First quantum computers very recently have demonstrated "quantum supremacy" or "quantum advantage": Executing a computation that would have been impossible on a classical machine. Today's quantum computers follow the NISQ paradigm: They…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Sebastian Brandhofer , Simon Devitt , Thomas Wellens , Ilia Polian

These notes discuss the quantum algorithms we know of that can solve problems significantly faster than the corresponding classical algorithms. So far, we have only discovered a few techniques which can produce speed up versus classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter W. Shor

Quantum computing (QC) has gained significant attention over the past two decades due to its potential for speeding up classically demanding tasks. This transition from an academic focus to a thriving commercial sector is reflected in…

The Quantum Computer Condition (QCC) provides a rigorous and completely general framework for carrying out analyses of questions pertaining to fault-tolerance in quantum computers. In this paper we apply the QCC to the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerald Gilbert , Michael Hamrick , F. Javier Thayer , Yaakov S. Weinstein

Quantum computers can in principle solve certain problems exponentially more quickly than their classical counterparts. We have not yet reached the advent of useful quantum computation, but when we do, it will affect nearly all scientific…

Quantum computers (QCs) are maturing. When QCs are powerful enough, they may be able to handle problems in chemistry, physics, and finance that are not classically solvable. However, the applicability of quantum algorithms to speed up…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Andriy Miranskyy , Mushahid Khan , Jean Paul Latyr Faye , Udson C. Mendes

Quantum computing has the potential to deliver large advantages on computational tasks, but advantages for practical tasks are not yet achievable with current hardware. Quantum sensing is an entirely separate quantum technology that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Saeed A. Khan , Sridhar Prabhu , Logan G. Wright , Peter L. McMahon

Ever since its inception, cryptography has been caught in a vicious circle: Cryptographers keep inventing methods to hide information, and cryptanalysts break them, prompting cryptographers to invent even more sophisticated encryption…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Renato Renner , Ramona Wolf

Interacting with a standard computer can enhance the capabilities of current quantum computers already today, particularly by offloading certain computations to the standard computer. Quantum computers that interact with standard computers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Niels M. P. Neumann

Quantum computers are hypothetical devices, based on quantum physics, that would enable us to perform certain computations hundreds of orders of magnitude faster than digital computers. This feature is coined as "quantum supremacy" and one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Gil Kalai

The quest for quantum advantage, wherein quantum computers surpass the computational capabilities of classical computers executing state-of-the-art algorithms on well-defined tasks, represents a pivotal race in the domain of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Muhammad AbuGhanem , Hichem Eleuch

In this perspective, we discuss conditions under which it would be possible for a modest fault-tolerant quantum computer to realize a runtime advantage by executing a quantum algorithm with only a small polynomial speedup over the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Ryan Babbush , Jarrod McClean , Michael Newman , Craig Gidney , Sergio Boixo , Hartmut Neven

Quantum computing is changing the way we think about computing. Significant strides in research and development for managing and harnessing the power of quantum systems has been made in recent years, demonstrating the potential for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Suryansh Upadhyay , Mahabubul Alam , Swaroop Ghosh

Faster algorithms, novel cryptographic mechanisms, and alternative methods of communication become possible when the model underlying information and computation changes from a classical mechanical model to a quantum mechanical one. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-29 Eleanor G. Rieffel

Quantum algorithms based on quantum kernel methods have been investigated previously [1]. A quantum advantage is derived from the fact that it is possible to construct a family of datasets for which, only quantum processing can recognise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sanjeev Naguleswaran

Quantum computing provides a new way for approaching problem solving, enabling efficient solutions for problems that are hard on classical computers. It is based on leveraging how quantum particles behave. With researchers around the world…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-29 Ahmed Shokry , Moustafa Youssef

Research in software engineering is essential for improving development practices, leading to reliable and secure software. Leveraging the principles of quantum physics, quantum computing has emerged as a new computational paradigm that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Ashis Kumar Mandal , Md Nadim , Chanchal K. Roy , Banani Roy , Kevin A. Schneider

Quantum algorithms can deliver asymptotic speedups over their classical counterparts. However, there are few cases where a substantial quantum speedup has been worked out in detail for reasonably-sized problems, when compared with the best…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Earl Campbell , Ankur Khurana , Ashley Montanaro

As we approach the era of quantum advantage, when quantum computers (QCs) can outperform any classical computer on particular tasks, there remains the difficult challenge of how to validate their performance. While algorithmic success can…