2nd Workshop on Quantum and Hybrid Quantum/Classical Computing Approaches

Quantum computing is an emerging technology that promises to solve extremely complex problems beyond the capabilities of conventional and future supercomputers. Despite recent advances in the Quantum software and hardware, further scaling up of the technology and additional fault tolerance is needed in order to solve relevant large scale problems. Combining Quantum Computing strategies with the currently available classical HPC approaches might provide better performance for a variety of scientific problems. For the near-term applicability of Quantum Computing, it is important to investigate Hybrid Quantum/Classical Approaches. Quantum Computing has matured to a point where involvement of researchers, developers and end users can be really useful and even accelerate the development of the hardware and the associated software stack. With a long-term outlook, hardware diversity and lack of accepted quantum computing standards makes it hard to identify which family of quantum devices is going to be predominant and helping to advance state of the art. Hence, the compelling need of benchmarks, standardised methods to test and evaluate quantum hardware and software. It is also important to prepare the market place for the new technologies and educate businesses, the public sector and governments about the potential uses, benefits and timelines.