On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Bill Stewart wrote: > The speed of quantum computing depends on the algorithm -
It is important to note that currently NMR bases systems only allow for 6 qubits. Only very recently we're getting practical qubits in solid state. These haven't been put to any spectacular use yet. Entangling nontrivial numbers of qubits, and keeping them entangled sufficiently long with error correction (it is not obvious that both of these will scale at all), and making the system execute nontrivial algorithms (it is not really an all-purpose machine, and certainly not a computer you're familiar with) appears rather hard. Everybody realizes that we're discussing currently completely theoretical vulnerabilities, right?
