Given the cooling requirements, I would expect cloud computing to be done as a service, similar to AWS. You can shrink a circuit, but not a refrigerator.
The first application will probably be to break most current cryptography. I’m sure there are plenty of governments that have intercepted communications and are holding onto the data until they can decrypt it. Also bitcoin mining and generating hash collisions.
Beyond that, the main applications I can think of are solving optimization problems and quantum simulations. The optimization applications are to broad for me to speculate about, but the simulations will probably be useful for protein modelling and design. The other main application I can think of is for materials science. Modelling the properties of materials is currently pretty hard and heavily determined by quantum phenomena.(Solids wouldn’t really be a thing if electrons and nuclei obeyed classical electrodynamics.)
I wouldn’t expect the average consumer to have a direct need for quantum computing. At least, I can’t think of anything off of the top of my head. Rather they’ll see the downstream effects of QC. New and better materials, new encryption algorithms, better medical technology.
Given the cooling requirements, I would expect cloud computing to be done as a service, similar to AWS. You can shrink a circuit, but not a refrigerator.
The first application will probably be to break most current cryptography. I’m sure there are plenty of governments that have intercepted communications and are holding onto the data until they can decrypt it. Also bitcoin mining and generating hash collisions.
Beyond that, the main applications I can think of are solving optimization problems and quantum simulations. The optimization applications are to broad for me to speculate about, but the simulations will probably be useful for protein modelling and design. The other main application I can think of is for materials science. Modelling the properties of materials is currently pretty hard and heavily determined by quantum phenomena.(Solids wouldn’t really be a thing if electrons and nuclei obeyed classical electrodynamics.)
I wouldn’t expect the average consumer to have a direct need for quantum computing. At least, I can’t think of anything off of the top of my head. Rather they’ll see the downstream effects of QC. New and better materials, new encryption algorithms, better medical technology.