What is quantum computing?

Quantum computing is a rapidly-emerging _________________ that harnesses the

laws of quantum mechanics to solve problems too complex for classical computers.

Today, IBM Quantum makes real quantum hardware -- a tool scientists only began to
imagine three decades ago -- available to hundreds of thousands of developers. Our
engineers deliver ever-more-powerful _________________ quantum processors at
regular intervals, alongside _________________ advances in software and quantum-
classical orchestration. This work drives toward the quantum computing speed and
capacity necessary to _________________ the world.

These machines are very different from the classical computers that have been around
for more than half a _________________. Here's a primer on this transformative
technology.

Why do we need quantum computers?

For some problems, _________________ aren’t that super.

When scientists and _________________ encounter difficult problems, they turn to

supercomputers. These are very large classical computers, often with thousands of
classical CPU and GPU cores. However, even supercomputers struggle to solve
certain kinds of problems.

If a supercomputer gets _________________, that's probably because the big

classical machine was asked to solve a problem with a high degree of complexity.
When classical computers fail, it's often due to complexity

Complex problems are problems with lots of _________________ interacting in

complicated ways. Modeling the behavior of individual atoms in a molecule is a
complex problem, because of all the different electrons interacting with one another.
Sorting out the ideal routes for a few hundred tankers in a global shipping network is
complex too.
Making quantum computers useful

Right now, IBM Quantum leads the world in quantum computing hardware and
software. Our roadmap is a clear, detailed plan to scale quantum processors,
overcome the scaling problem, and build the _________________ necessary for
quantum advantage.

Quantum advantage will not be achieved with hardware alone. IBM has also spent
years _________________ the software that will be necessary to do useful work using
quantum computers. We developed the Qiskit quantum SDK. It is open-source,
python-based, and by far the most widely-used quantum SDK in the world. We also
developed Qiskit Runtime, the most powerful quantum programming model in the
world.

Achieving quantum advantage will require new methods of _________________

errors, increasing speed, and orchestrating quantum and classical resources. The
foundations of that work are being laid today in Qiskit Runtime.

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