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Could someone please help me out here? I have to write an essay about quantum computing and I'm not an expert in it. The prompt is: What can I do with 1m qubits? I think I just messed up because I’ve been writing the whole time about nuclear fusion, but I didn’t even check if m quantum qubits are enough to simulate what I’m writing about, so I thought I could ask Reddit. What I basically talked about was plasma modeling, where I model plasma and the magnetic field around it so I can know how to control it for
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Academic discussion of all things quantum computing from hardware through algorithms. Not the place for business speculation, memes, or philosophy. Could someone please help me out here? I have to write an essay about quantum computing and I'm not an expert in it. The prompt is: What can I do with 1m qubits? I think I just messed up because I’ve been writing the whole time about nuclear fusion, but I didn’t even check if m quantum qubits are enough to simulate what I’m writing about, so I thought I could ask Reddit. What I basically talked about was plasma modeling, where I model plasma and the magnetic field around it so I can know how to control it for the fusion process. This way, researchers won’t need to waste time and money repeating experiments because plasma is unstable and hits the walls of the reactor. Instead, we could model it with 1 million qubits, or like a small patch of plasma, and then we’d know how to control it better. I also talked about tritium fuel, and how we can find the right ratio for tritium breeding and lithium by modeling it on a quantum computer. Fusion reactors often fail due to not having enough tritium, or having too much, which can cause the system to explode. So, simulating it on a quantum computer could help find that right balance. I also talked about reactor materials and how we can model atomic interactions with the walls of different materials to find the best material for the fusion reactor. Now, my question is: are these ideas too unrealistic? Is 1 million qubits just not enough to model these things, or to model them at a scale that could be useful?

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