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Top Quantum Computing Trends in 2025 and Government & Public Sector Benefits. By leveraging these trends, the government and public sector can enhance their capabilities, improve security, optimize operations, and remain competitive in the rapidly evolving technological landscape.
Trend Overview: Quantum processors are becoming more powerful and capable of handling complex algorithms that classical computers struggle with. Companies like Google, IBM, and Intel are investing heavily in improving quantum chips.
BENEFITS: Governments can leverage these advancements to enhance national security, optimize logistics, and improve data analysis capabilities.
Airline Aviation Authorities: Optimization problems. As an example, the technology could help schedule all the flights for an airline in such a way that hundreds of planes can take thousands of passengers to their desired destinations while minimizing the use of fuel.
Trend Overview: Quantum applications are emerging in various sectors, including cryptography, logistics optimization, and machine learning.
BENEFITS: The public sector can use quantum computing to develop secure encryption methods for all critical services and optimize supply chain management.
Simulating correlation of complex phenomena: What would happen if…. a regional war broke out, with a global pandemic, and at the same time disruption to the financial system with trade tariffs? This can be a simple question when the situation is simple, like flipping a coin (or even challenging with a single global event), but ask about complex systems and grey and black swan events, such as impacts to credit, market, and operational systems, national transit systems, or defense systems and soon only quantum computers are able to answer.
The "basket" of quantum technologies can help these challenges through the application of Quantum Simulation, Quantum Communication, Quantum Algorithms, and Quantum Machine Learning (or an applied developed continuum from Emulation>Simulation>Optimization>General Purpose Universal Computing) in the following ways:
• Help eliminate data blind spots and prevent unfounded financial assumptions from creating losses improve today's risk models to include other "grey and black swan" risk events, such as pandemics and multi-event catastrophes (oil crash and pandemic).
• Further improved multi-parallel Monte Carlo risk simulations and new applications against existing industry standard models and frameworks (for example - networking OSI model).
• Illuminating hidden features. Whether looking for ancient archeological sites or accurately mapping groundwater, quantum sensing techniques such as gravimetry show promise in being able to identify such invisible, but valuable, features. (1)
Trend Overview: Quantum cloud platforms are being developed by companies like IBM, Amazon, and Microsoft, allowing businesses to test quantum computers without setting them up on location.
BENEFITS: Governments can use these platforms to lower barriers to entry for quantum computing, enabling them to perform quantum modeling and optimization in a cloud setting.
Trend Overview: The migration to quantum-safe cryptography is necessitated by the advent of quantum computers that can break traditional asymmetric key algorithms.
BENEFITS: Governments need to adopt quantum-safe encryption to secure their data and communications, ensuring protection against future quantum attacks.
• Producing randomness and security: The nondeterministic behavior of quantum particles is perfect for generating random numbers or ensuring communications have not been intruded upon. Public sector institutions in government and higher education are playing an important role in scaling point-to-point entangled quantum communication to enable a true, secure quantum internet. (3)
• Next-Generation Architectures: Improved next generation communication and cryptography with the convergence of blockchain and AI and quantum key distribution.
Trend Overview: Quantum computing is set to revolutionize industries alongside AI, providing unparalleled processing power and speed.
BENEFITS: The public sector can leverage this integration to enhance decision-making processes, improve predictive analytics, and develop more efficient AI models.
Searching unsorted data: For public sector workers in tax, banking, regulatory, and other fields, finding anomalies in mountains of data can be a daily challenge. Quantum computing paired with classical machine learning has proven adept at finding fraudulent transactions in reams of real-world financial data. (2)
• Portfolio Dependencies: Better determine attractive portfolios given thousands of assets with interconnecting dependencies (IoT, BigData) and identify key fraud patterns more effectively across industry models and platforms in the "real" economy and "market" economy.
• Complex Optimization: Solving complex optimization problems through quantum algorithms and hybrid quantum/ML such as portfolio risk optimization and fraud detection and important as potential "gray swans" with the further market expansion of non-traditional digital FS providers such as BigTech, Consumer Tech, Telecom and e-commerce.
(1) Ben Stray, Andrew Lamb, Aisha Kaushik, et al., “Quantum sensing for gravity cartography,” Nature, 602, 2022, p. 590-594.
(2) Michelle Grossi, Noelle Ibrahim, Voica Radescu, et al., “Mixed Quantum-classical method for fraud detection with Quantum Feature Selection,” IEEE Transactions on Quantum Engineering, Vol. 4, 2016.
(3) Andrew Nellis, “The quantum internet, explained,” UChicago News, December 8, 2022.
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