by
Prof.Francesco Petruccione
(University of Kwazululu Natal)
→
Africa/Johannesburg
CHPC Boardroom
CHPC Boardroom
15 Lower Hope Road
CSIR Campus
Rosebank 7700
Cape Town
South Africa
Description
We are living in very interesting times: we are experiencing first hand the 4th Industrial Revolution and the 2nd Quantum Revolution. The latter promises to give us quantum versions of technologies relevant to the success of the former: quantum computing, quantum communication, quantum metrology. Recently, the availability of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computing hardware in the cloud has generated lots of interest in industry and academia about the potential of quantum computing.
In the talk we will review the state of quantum computing in general, explore some important applications, and stress its relevance for sustainable development.