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[–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

Ehhhhhh that's purely a problem of the "setting up" a quantum computer (ok ok and how many qubits are involved). They SHOULD be extremely capable of it. Literally able to get a 'correct' answer in one cycle.

It's just very unfortunate that quantum computers benefit greatly from slower cycles, and the setup of the computations are a real nightmare. As you say, I'm unaware of any that can solve protein folding in a single cycle, and the more cycles there are involved, the more subject it is to the algorithm implemented and setup steps taken.

Maybe one day, we'll have billion-qubit quantum computers solving all sorts of problems reliably, but that day is definitely not today!

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago

    As far as I understand it a billion qbit computer is not possible because the time to setup the system would be too long to retain coherence.

    But maybe new techniques will be developed, who knows.

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