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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
Classical computers have reached performance limits in some applications largely due to restrictions caused by current architectures and the algorithms on which they rely. As a result, a number of efforts have focused over the last few years in achieving the “quantum advantage”, i.e., the ability of quantum computers to outperform classical computers. To be clear, there are also limits on the performance of quantum computers, such as being difficult to build, engineer and program. Physical resource limitations such as available bandwidth, energy, and volume, in particular, induce error rates that typically grow as the requirements for more qubits grow. Herein lies one of the chief challenges, i.e., qubits are fragile and prone to errors. In quantum computing, error correction efforts are a necessity that usually begin with encoding information over a system of multiple redundant qubits. In addition, quantum computing algorithms generally have qubit resource requirements that far exceed the current scale at which quantum computers can be built. The diverse and dynamic applications of the Intelligence Community (IC) demand a new perspective in terms of how we assess the physical systems that can define mission strategies and impact mission outcomes. The radically different computational parallelism offered by the superposition principle in quantum systems may extend the range of tractable computations beyond those achievable by classical computation. However, there continues to be a need to be practical in balancing the costs of quantum computing versus classical computing with respect to ROI. Quantum computing is not economically feasible or practical in some cases in which classical computing performs well. However, the continued interest in solutions of NP-complete problems are expected to keep quantum computing at the forefront of future discussions. Most often, conversations are focused on the impact of quantum computing on the performance of algorithms, in particular, and data science, in general. However, less attention is placed on the ability of data science to impact and advance quantum computing, though more attention is surely deserved.
Example Approaches:
Examine computational tasks with known inputs; Examine learning tasks in which the goal is to learn about an a priori unknown physical system; Expand the problems that can be mapped directly onto quantum architectures; Identify and assess hybrid classical/quantum approaches and their potential impact; Examine the potential of data science to advance quantum computing.
Relevance to the Intelligence Community (IC):
Problems to be Considered:
Key Words: #Classical computing, #Quantum computing, #Quantum Advantage, #Computational Tractability, #Qubits, #Error Correction, #NP-Complete Problems, #Data Science.
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