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The difficulty of adding qubits increases super-linearly with the number of qubits (especially because of communication delay vs time to decoherence) , so "only" a few thousand is already very optimistic. Worse, the idea of "error-free qubits" is essentially like cold fusion - you can say the words and we understand what you mean by them, but they don't describe anything that can exist in practice.


> The difficulty of adding qubits increases super-linearly with the number of qubits

Is that true? Hardware from the likes of IBM and IonQ has already gone from < 10 to >= 20 “algorithmic qubits” [1] in the space of a few year.

[1] https://ionq.com/quantum-systems/aria




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