Guest Post by Dr. Richard Padbury, Dr. Aaron Kemp, Dr. Cian Reeves
In boardrooms around the world, a familiar question keeps coming up: When will quantum advantage arrive?
It is a fair question. Increasingly, though, it may be the wrong one.
That is not because quantum advantage has yet to be observed. A growing number of teams have reported results they describe as quantum advantage. Google demonstrated a verifiable quantum speedup for a specialized computational task.[1] IBM and its research partners have announced advantage results in chemistry and physics simulations.[2] Other groups have reported substantial gains for carefully defined problems.[3]
These results are significant. They represent years of scientific and engineering effort and offer strong evidence that both quantum hardware and software are advancing.
