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What Can We Do with a Quantum Computer?
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Matthias Troyer Station Q, ETH Zurich
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Classical computers have come a long way
Antikythera mechanism
ENIAC
astronomical positions
(1946)
(100 BC)
Kelvin s harmonic analyzer prediction of tides
(1878)
Difference Engine
(1822)
Is there anything that we cannot solve on future supercomputers?
Titan, ORNL
(2013)
Matthias Troyer
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How long will Moore s law continue?
Do we see signs of the end of Moore s law?
Can we go below 7nm feature size?
Can we use more than 3 million cores?
Can we fight the recent exponential increase in power consumption?
Matthias Troyer
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