I don’t have a background in quantum computing, so there’s a chance I’m misinterpreting the question in some way, but I learned a lot doing the research for the forecast (like that there’s a lot of controversy regarding whether quantum supremacy has been achieved yet).
Amusingly, during my research I stumbled upon this Metaculus question about when a >49 qubit quantum computer would be created which resolved ambiguously due to the issue of how well-controlled the qubits are. For the purposes of this forecast I assumed it would resolve based on the raw number of qubits, without adjusting for control.
By 2030 how many logical qubits will the leading commercially available quantum device be able to compute with?
My forecast is based on:
The past trend of increasing qubitsin quantum devices
The current leading commercially available device having 20 qubits
Google’s plans to make Sycamore, which has 54 qubits, available
I don’t have a background in quantum computing, so there’s a chance I’m misinterpreting the question in some way, but I learned a lot doing the research for the forecast (like that there’s a lot of controversy regarding whether quantum supremacy has been achieved yet).
Amusingly, during my research I stumbled upon this Metaculus question about when a >49 qubit quantum computer would be created which resolved ambiguously due to the issue of how well-controlled the qubits are. For the purposes of this forecast I assumed it would resolve based on the raw number of qubits, without adjusting for control.