After years of speculation, quantum computing is here—sort of.
Physicists are beginning to consider how quantum computing could provide answers to the deepest questions in the field. But most aren’t getting caught up in the hype. Instead, they are taking what for them is a familiar tack—planning for a future that is still decades out, while making room for pivots, turns and potential breakthroughs along the way.
“When we’re working on building a new particle collider, that sort of project can take 40 years,” says Hank Lamm, an associate scientist at the US Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. “This is on the same timeline. I hope to start seeing quantum computing provide big answers for particle physics before I die. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t interesting physics to do along the way.”
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