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I’m continuing a series of broad review papers on quantum computing after Disentangling quantum emulation and quantum simulation that I published in January 2023.
In this new essay, I try to answer a very commonplace question or wisdom: will Moore’s law be also applicable for quantum computing. The answer is: yes and no! And in quantum computing, there’s an ongoing challenge to assemble both quality qubits and a large number of these qubits. And there’s so much entanglement between various figures of merits and quantum+classical technologies plus such a zoo of different types of qubits that a simplistic exponential regression like Moore’s law is hard to make. On top of that, Moore’s law was rapidly applicable for chipsets that were of practical use and contributed to the birth and rapid expansion of the personal computer market, then to the Internet and the smartphone and all things connected from supercomputers, cloud data-centers down to the tiniest connected objects. Here, with quantum computers, we have not passed the threshold of real utility and the economical drive that did fuel Moore’s law is not yet at play.
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Dans le 46e épisode de Quantum, le podcast de l’actualité quantique francophone, j’étais comme d’habitude avec Fanny Bouton, mais à Las Vegas à l’occasion de l’APS March meeting qui s’y tient début mars 2023. Nous y couvrons l’actualité événementielle, celle des startups du quantique et un bout de l’actualité scientifique quantique.
Voici le synopsis et les liens de ce podcast.
Événements
MWC Barcelone
Le Mobile World Congress se mettait à la couleur du quantique avec des stands et des sessions. Fanny raconte comment cela s’est passé, notamment les sessions et aussi sa rencontre avec Philippe Grangier qui représentait le flagship quantique européen sur le stand de l’EIC.
Mardis de l’Innovation
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I published the ebook “Understanding Quantum technologies 2021” in september 2021, a free 838 pages in-depth book provided in digital format (PDF). It was the fourth edition of a book initially written in French.
We are one year later and here is the fifth edition of this unique book. Understanding Quantum technologies 2022 is a monster of 1132 pages. It is probably the only one that covers the topic so broadly with all its dimensions (history, science, technology, hardware/software, usages, societal, political) and for all quantum technologies (computing, telecommunications, cryptography, sensing, and even quantum matter). It is a “how it’s made” book that tries to unturn a lot of stones.
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