How long before quantum computers can benefit society? That’s Google’s US$5 million question

By Adam Lowe, Lecturer, School of Computer Science and Digital Technologies, Aston University

Google and the XPrize Foundation have launched a competition worth US$5 million (£4 million) to develop real-world applications for quantum computers that benefit society – by speeding up progress on one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, for example. The principles of quantum physics suggest quantum computers could perform very fast calculations on particular problems, so this competition may expand the range of applications where they have an advantage…

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