Brierley notes that drug discovery and materials-science applications might require quantum computers that can perform a trillion decoherence-free operations by current estimates — and that’s good news.
Similarly, Riverlane is making the daunting requirements for a useful quantum computer more manageable. Brierley notes that drug discovery and materials-science applications might require quantum computers that can perform a trillion decoherence-free operations by current estimates — and that’s good news. “Five years ago, that was a million trillion,” he says.