alt Hacker NewsI could see the usecase of a local network between quantum computers in the same room. The part where i get lost is why a wide area quantum network would be useful.
I could see the usecase of a local network between quantum computers in the same room. The part where i get lost is why a wide area quantum network would be useful.
A priori, a quantum network could efficiently solve e.g. leadership election or shortest path type problems. I don't think there's any evidence that they can, but any problem you might want to solve for a wide area network is potentially a use case for quantum. By the way, as I said I'm more or less a QC skeptic in the sense that I don't think we will have scalable QC doing really useful work in our lifetimes. Happy to be wrong though.