Hey, thanks for weighing in, those seem like interesting papers and I’ll give them a read through.
To be clear, I have very little experience in quantum computing, and haven’t looked into it that much and so I don’t feel qualified to comment on it myself (hence why this was just an aside there). All I am doing is relaying the views of prominent professors in my field, who feel very strongly that it is overhyped and were willing to say so in the panel, although I do not recall them giving much detail on why they felt that way. This matches with the general views I’ve had with other physicists in casual conversations. If I had to guess the source of these views, I’d say it was skepticism of the ability to actually build such large scale fault-tolerant systems.
Obviously this is not strong evidence and should not be taken as such.
I agree there is certainly quite a lot of hype, though when people want to hype quantum they usually target AI or something. My comment was echoing that quantum computing for material science (and also chemistry) might be the one application where there is good quality science being made. There are also significantly less useful papers, for example those related to “NISQ” (non-error-corrected) devices, but I would argue the QC community is doing a good job at focusing on the important problems, not just hyping around.
Hey, thanks for weighing in, those seem like interesting papers and I’ll give them a read through.
To be clear, I have very little experience in quantum computing, and haven’t looked into it that much and so I don’t feel qualified to comment on it myself (hence why this was just an aside there). All I am doing is relaying the views of prominent professors in my field, who feel very strongly that it is overhyped and were willing to say so in the panel, although I do not recall them giving much detail on why they felt that way. This matches with the general views I’ve had with other physicists in casual conversations. If I had to guess the source of these views, I’d say it was skepticism of the ability to actually build such large scale fault-tolerant systems.
Obviously this is not strong evidence and should not be taken as such.
I agree there is certainly quite a lot of hype, though when people want to hype quantum they usually target AI or something. My comment was echoing that quantum computing for material science (and also chemistry) might be the one application where there is good quality science being made. There are also significantly less useful papers, for example those related to “NISQ” (non-error-corrected) devices, but I would argue the QC community is doing a good job at focusing on the important problems, not just hyping around.