The Tyranny of Qubits - Quantum Technology's Scalability Bottleneck
John Edward Gough · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2017
In this essay, I look at (bemoan) the issues surrounding simulating quantum systems in order to design quantum devices for quantum technologies. The program runs into a natural difficulty that simulating quantum systems really require a proper quantum simulator. The problem is likened to the "tyranny of numbers" that faced computer engineers in the 1960s.