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I had some shower thoughts.

Let's assume decoherence won't be a problem.

How about a purely economic perspective. Something like the number of bits of DRAM you can get for the cost of a single qubit. Surely, for quantum computers to become usefulfrom a cost POV, this number needs to shrink, yes?

So it could then be interesting to graph this ratio over time and see where it's headed. My gut is that given the state of the art nature of QC, the cost of 1 qubit should be very high, whereas one bit of DRAM should be very low. Which mean 1 qubit is worth a crazy amount of DRAM.

Does anyone know if this has been analysed?




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