A major advance reveals deep connections between the classes of problems that computers can — and can’t — possibly do. At first glance, the big news coming out of this summer’s conference on the ...
Computability theory establishes which problems can in principle be solved by mechanical procedures, formalised by the Turing machine model and its equivalents. It draws a firm boundary between ...
As a goal, quantum supremacy 1 is unlike most algorithmic tasks because it is defined not in terms of a particular problem to be solved but in terms of what classical computers cannot do. This is like ...