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Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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429 points AbhishekParmar | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 15:16 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
1. dlandis ◴[22 Oct 25 15:48 UTC] No.45670953[source]▶
> Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)

There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?

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2. jpadkins ◴[22 Oct 25 22:04 UTC] No.45675727[source]▶
> As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?

not really. but that doesn't mean it's not worth striving for. Breakthrough to commercial application are notoriously hard to predict. The only way to find out is to keep pushing at the frontier.