Jeffery-Ernst Lab

Research focus

ERC Starting Grant · 2021

Algorithms, Security and Complexity for Quantum Computers

As progress is made in implementing quantum computers, the question is looming: What will we do with them? This proposal is concerned with the theoretical computer science aspects of this question. Part of this question is concerned with quantum algorithms (WP1). We know of several examples of quantum algorithms with large speedups over the best known classical algorithms, such as Shor's poly-time integer factorization algorithm. While this is evidence that quantum computers will be useful once built, it does not tell us what quantum computers will be used for in practice (probably not much factoring). To ensure that quantum computer users are best able to make use of them, we will focus on…

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