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While extensive research over the past decades has been dedicated to developing scalable quantum computers, the question of their energetic performance has only gained attention more recently, but its importance is now recognized. In fact,…

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Quantum algorithms can break factoring and discrete logarithm based cryptography and weaken symmetric cryptography and hash functions. In order to estimate the real-world impact of these attacks, apart from tracking the development of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-11 Vlad Gheorghiu , Michele Mosca

Quantum computing promises revolutionary advances in modeling materials and molecules. However, the up-to-date runtime estimates for utility-scale applications on certain quantum hardware systems are in the order of years rendering quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-21 Katerina Gratsea , Matthew Otten

If a quantum computer is stabilized by fault-tolerant quantum error correction (QEC), then most of its resources (qubits and operations) are dedicated to the extraction of error information. Analysis of this process leads to a set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew M. Steane

Executing quantum logic in cryogenic quantum computers requires a continuous energy supply from room-temperature control electronics. This dependence on external energy sources creates scalability limitations due to control channel density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Yaniv Kurman , Kieran Hymas , Arkady Fedorov , William J. Munro , James Quach

Quantum computers are emerging as a promising new technology due to their ability to solve complex problems that exceed the capabilities of classical systems in terms of time. Among various implementations, superconducting qubits have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Pedro Ramos , Marco Pezzutto , Yasser Omar

Quantum computers are expected to bring drastic acceleration to several computing tasks against classical computers. Noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, which have tens to hundreds of noisy physical qubits, are gradually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Yutaro Akahoshi , Kazunori Maruyama , Hirotaka Oshima , Shintaro Sato , Keisuke Fujii

Developing high-performance materials is critical for diverse energy applications to increase efficiency, improve sustainability and reduce costs. Classical computational methods have enabled important breakthroughs in energy materials…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Seongmin Kim , In-Saeng Suh , Travis S. Humble , Thomas Beck , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

The quantum computation of electronic energies can break the curse of dimensionality that plagues many-particle quantum mechanics. It is for this reason that a universal quantum computer has the potential to fundamentally change…

We found that the actual computational time-cost of the QFT is O(n 2^n) for large n in a quantum computer using nuclear spins. The computational cost of a quantum algorithm has usually been estimated as the sum of the universal gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Saito , K. Kioi , Y. Akagi , N. Hashizume , K. Ohta

Scaling up to a large number of qubits with high-precision control is essential in the demonstrations of quantum computational advantage to exponentially outpace the classical hardware and algorithmic improvements. Here, we develop a…

With the rapid development and early industrialization of quantum technologies, it is of great interest to analyze their overall energy consumption before planning for their wide-scale deployments. The evaluation of the total energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-05 Raja Yehia , Yoann Piétri , Carlos Pascual-García , Pascal Lefebvre , Federico Centrone

In theory, quantum computers can efficiently simulate quantum physics, factor large numbers and estimate integrals, thus solving otherwise intractable computational problems. In practice, quantum computers must operate with noisy devices…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Knill

It is currently not possible to quantify the resources needed to perform a computation. As a consequence, it is not possible to reliably evaluate the hardware resources needed for the application of algorithms or the running of programs.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-11-30 R. J. J. H. van Son

In this paper, we use open-source tools to perform quantum resource estimation to assess the requirements for industry-relevant quantum computation. Our analysis uses the problem of industrial shift scheduling in manufacturing and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-06 Anna M. Krol , Marvin Erdmann , Ewan Munro , Andre Luckow , Zaid Al-Ars

Although quantum computers are capable of solving problems like factoring exponentially faster than the best-known classical algorithms, determining the resources responsible for their computational power remains unclear. An important class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-11 Nana Liu , Jayne Thompson , Christian Weedbrook , Seth Lloyd , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu , Kavan Modi

In recent years, there have been many studies on quantum computing and the construction of quantum computers which are capable of breaking conventional number theory-based public key cryptosystems. Therefore, in the not-too-distant future,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Reza Hooshmand , Farhad Naserizadeh , Jalil Mazloum

We determine the minimum energy required to control the evolution of any mesoscopic quantum system in the presence of arbitrary Markovian noise processes. This result provides the mesoscopic equivalent of the fundamental cost of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Jordan Horowitz , Kurt Jacobs

Accounting for resources is the central issue in computational efficiency. We point out physical constraints implicit in information readout that have been overlooked in classical computing. The basic particle-counting mode of read-out sets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Wallentowitz , I. A. Walmsley , J. H. Eberly

With the demonstrated ability to perform calculations in seconds that would take classical supercomputers thousands of years, quantum computers namely hold the promise of radically advancing sustainable IT. However, quantum computers face…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Sylvain Cordier , Karl Thibault , Marie-Luc Arpin , Ben Amor