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IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip
(www.nature.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Interesting, I’ve only really heard of breaking encryption with them. Is there already a proven algorithm for packing that could be reasonably done with a qc not too far into the future
There is. Here's a couple of papers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39013-9
https://www.ripublication.com/gjpam21/gjpamv17n1_02.pdf