• The road to useful quantum computing applications Nov 13, 2025 Our new framework, published today, helps us understand and navigate the promising pathways and critical obstacles on the journey from new discovery to real world application. • Sometimes, history happens all at once. • A few short years can usher in decades of progress and innovation. • We’re now seeing that with quantum computing.Forty years of research, work and investment are converging, and the grand challenge of building large-scale, capable quantum computers is within humanity’s reach. • The quantum computing community has made remarkable progress on hardware, and our high-performance Willow chip is leading the charge. • We’re now focused on achieving ournext milestone, a long-lived logical qubit, which will enable more powerful and stable quantum computers.
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- Google and the broader quantum‑computing community report significant hardware advances, notably the Willow chip, and are now targeting a long‑lived logical qubit that would enable more powerful, fault‑tolerant machines. While technical challenges remain, confidence has risen that no insurmountable obstacles block progress. To guide the transition from theory to real‑world use, the team introduced a five‑stage framework-Discovery, Problem‑Instance Identification, Real‑World Advantage, Deployment, and Impact-outlining how quantum algorithms move from abstract concepts to practical applications. The paper evaluates current promising applications against this roadmap, highlighting where they stand in the journey toward tangible impact.
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