[Cryptography] REEQe

[Peter Fairbrother]

Being a cryptologist not a quantum computer development engineer, I look
at the capability of quantum computers primarily in terms of of how
useful they might be for someday breaking cryptographic algorithms.

I came up with the idea of REEQe, which stands for Reliable Entangled
Error-free Qbits equivalent, as a measure of capability.

First reliable - let's say they all work without error for one complete
day in two. Entangled, well you can do QG without entangled qbits but
entangled ones are much more useful. Error-free, that's obvious.
Qualified by equivalent, so you can calculate an equivalent value for
unreliable, non entangled and/or error-correcting QC's.

Pretty sure it's a logarithmic scale of capability, and perhaps of
difficulty. I figure we are at about 20 REEQe now, but icbw.

Thoughts?




Oh, and why does qubit have a u in it? Does it need one?

Peter Fairbrother