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124 sats \ 5 replies \ @south_korea_ln 23 Apr \ on: deleted by author AMA

Not sure I'll be there in time for the ~AMA, so dropping a few questions now already:

  • In the context of simulating many-body systems, what kind of result would you personally take as clear evidence that we’ve gone beyond problems that are merely hard in practice for classical methods, to something that genuinely requires a quantum device?
  • From a condensed matter perspective, different qubit platforms, such as superconducting circuits, spin-based systems, or proposed topological qubits, seem to rely on quite different physical mechanisms for suppressing errors. Do you think those differences could ever lead to qualitatively different scaling in how hard it is to keep a large system coherent, or are they mostly differences in prefactors rather than something more fundamental?

Bonus question, with a (likely failed) attempt at linking condensed matter intuition with QC:

  • For things like SHA-256, we basically assume they behave like random functions with no useful exploitable structure. Do you think there’s any realistic chance that hidden structure could make them easier than we expect, a bit like how many-body systems can look intractable until some emergent structure appears? I’m not specifically thinking about quantum algorithms here.

And a question I don't want you to answer~~

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1 sat \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby OP 23 Apr

I'll be sure to ask these!

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124 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 23 Apr

heh heh heh and you should pretend you came up with those questions yourself ;)

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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby OP 23 Apr

Yes. I will look smart.

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1 sat \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 23 Apr

Here another one:

Since you’re both at the University of Texas at Austin, do you ever interact with Allan MacDonald or discuss quantum computing from a condensed matter perspective? Or are your fields/interests too far away from each other?

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103 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 23 Apr

Some other ones.

  • Any recommendations on better platforms to start playing with all this? Qiskit, Pennylane? Just thinking ahead in case condensed matter grants keep asking for a "quantum" angle when requesting funds, I might need to add some tools to my toolbox ;)
  • What's the best introduction video you'd advise someone to watch to get familiar with quantum computers? What do you think of this one by 3Blue1Brown?

I'll let you select the ones you think are most relevant to the mood of the ~AMA. No need to burden him with too many questions...

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