Researchers from a number of prestigious laboratories throughout the United States, including MIT’s Lincoln laboratory, NASA, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, recently collaborated with a government program to identify and benchmark key areas for quantum computing researchers to focus on.
One particular area of interest for many quantum computing researchers is in developing algorithms and hardware capable of processing “non-linear differential equations.” If successfully developed and implemented, quantum computers capable of running the most complex non-linear differential equations would predict market movements beyond the global scale with accuracy far greater than that achievable by the most powerful supercomputers, and in a fraction of the time.