Given the impeding timeline of developing good quality quantum processing units, it is the moment to rethink the approach to advance quantum computing research. Rather than waiting for quantum hardware technologies to mature, we need to start assessing in tandem the impact of the occurrence of quantum computing in various scientific fields. However, to this purpose, we need to use a complementary but quite different approach than proposed by the NISQ vision, which is heavily focused on and burdened by the engineering challenges. That is why we propose and advocate the PISQ approach: Perfect Intermediate Scale Quantum computing based on the already known concept of perfect qubits. This will allow researchers to focus much more on the development of new applications by defining the algorithms in terms of perfect qubits and evaluate them on quantum computing simulators that are executed on supercomputers. It is not the long-term solution but will currently allow universities to research on quantum logic and algorithms and companies can already start developing their internal know-how on quantum solutions.
翻译:考虑到发展优质量子处理单位的阻碍时间,现在是重新考虑推进量子计算研究的方法的时候了。我们不是等待量子硬件技术成熟,而是需要开始同时评估在各种科学领域发生量子计算的影响。然而,为了这个目的,我们需要使用一个与NISQ愿景提出的互补但相当不同的方法,该愿景高度关注并因工程挑战而负担沉重。 这就是为什么我们提议并倡导PISQ方法:根据已知的完美Qubits概念进行完美的中间比例量子计算。这将使研究人员能够更多地关注新应用的开发,从完美Qubits的角度界定算法,并评估在超级计算机上执行的量子计算模拟器。这不是长期解决方案,但目前允许大学研究量子逻辑和算法,公司可以开始开发其内部有关量子解决方案的诀窍。