Schrödinger’s Cat in Industry: Real Life Quantum Software Engineering
summary
Fraunhofer IAO runs the SEQUOIA project building practical quantum software stacks around the IBM Q System Ehningen using cloud access and simulator+backend tests. Current hardware has 27 qubits and reports a quantum volume 32, giving roughly ~200 gate operations before decoherence, so small circuits (they demo a 2x2 Sudoku) work but scale-up suffers visible noise. Annealers are already industry-used, superconducting gate machines aim for useful performance in 5–10 years, and urgent action includes algorithm training, simulator pipelines and post‑quantum migration from RSA.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:45Outline
- 3:15Physics
- 5:10Hardware
- 6:02System
- 7:52Short experience
- 8:26Research scope
- 10:05Survey
- 10:54Use Cases
- 14:10Use Cases criterium
- 15:57Time scales
- 18:02Recommendations
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