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> Bennett and Brassard, with Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani, showed that in black-box setting, quantum computers would require big-omega(sqrt(n)) queries to search n entries, matching Grover's algorithm. For some reason, the popular press rarely covers these results that limit the power of quantum computing.

This is mentioned almost as a footnote, but to (layman) me seems much more important than QKD, especially from a comp sci perspective instead of a physics perspective.

parent bawolff 7 months ago

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