Ciro Santilli @cirosantilli 40

By the Open University. "Open" I mean.

Some/all courses expire in 4 weeks: www.futurelearn.com/courses/intro-to-quantum-computing. Ludicrous.

This is the true key question: what are the most important algorithms that would be accelerated by quantum computing?

Some candidates:

Do you have proper optimization or quantum chemistry algorithms that will make trillions?

Maybe there is some room for doubt because some applications might be way better in some implementations, but we should at least have a good general idea.

However, clear information on this really hard to come by, not sure why.

Whenever asked e.g. at: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3390/can-anybody-provide-a-simple-example-of-a-quantum-computer-algorithm/3407 on Physics Stack Exchange people say the infinite mantra:

Lists:

These are a bit like the Verilog of quantum computing.

One would hope that they are not Turing complete, this way they may serve as a way to pass on data in such a way that the receiver knows they will only be doing so much computation in advance to unpack the circuit. So it would be like JSON is for JavaScript.

Dirac field.