The Dawn of Quantum Computers

Harvard FAS

How can we accelerate the path toward realizing useful quantum computers? What will be the first scientific and industrial applications of such machines? Should the development and deployment of quantum technologies be regulated—and if so, how? For more than four decades, scientists have explored how the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics—particularly superposition and entanglement—can be harnessed to build new kinds of information processors capable of solving problems that are…