(Fig.1) Hype ! Today's quantum computers are useless, cannot predict proteins.
The 1st, 7th paragraphs of this hyped news (5/29/2024) say
"Researchers from Cleveland Clinic and IBM... that could (= just speculation ) lay the groundwork for applying quantum computing methods to protein structure prediction."
"The research team applied a mix of quantum and classical computing methods." ← This (deceptive) hybrid computer is just a classical computer.
↑ This research paper ↓
This p.14-left-3rd-paragraph says
"We tested steps 1−3 of this workflow on a small, but highly
relevant seven amino acid fragment" ← Just 7 amino acids, Not a protein
"the quantum algorithm executed on IBM_Cleveland and solved by VQE (= hybrid method, which is just a classical computer )"
p.15-Figure 11(a) shows this IBM quantum computer used only 10 qubits for dealing with 7 amino acids.
↑ These 10 qubits (= one qubit can express only 0 or 1 bit state ) can express only 210 = 1024 different numbers, which can be easily expressed by the ordinary classical computer with billions of bits.
So we do Not need the present error-prone quantum computers with only tiny numbers of impractical qubits, and No quantum computer's advantage.
A practical quantum compute is said to need more than millions of qubits, which is impossible to realize forever.
As a result. contrary to the media-hype, today's impractical quantum computers with tiny numbers of error-prone qubits are completely useless for any purposes including protein structure prediction or drug discovery.
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