Quantum and Post-Moore's Law Computing

Abstract

This special issue of Internet Computing includes four articles that target the technical challenges and discuss the vast opportunities of quantum computing. The first article discusses mitigating the decoherence error in quantum data transformation algorithms and could potentially benefit big data analysis. The second article reviews a wide range of emerging applications that quantum computing could help. The third and fourth articles discuss the quantum cloud, providing software system design guidelines and characterizing hardware errors, both of which have the potential to improve today's cloud-based quantum computing infrastructure and benefit many users of the quantum cloud service.