Using a quantum computer to solve a real-world problem -- what can be achieved today?

Understand

Quantum computing is an important developing technology with the potential to revolutionise the landscape of scientific and business problems that can be practically addressed.

• The widespread excitement derives from the potential for a fault tolerant quantum computer to solve previously intractable problems.
• Such a machine is not expected to be available until 2030 at least.
• Thus we are currently in the so-called NISQ era where more heuristic quantum approaches are being applied to early versions of quantum hardware.