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Potential of quantum computers for 1) Aerospace and shipping

"Quantum computing is particularly suitable for optimisation in aviation," said Axmann. Such approaches can be applied to maintenance, flight planning and flight routes, gate assignment or air-cargo distribution. "Naturally, we at DLR are heavily involved with applications in air traffic and space travel. But these applications can also be transferred to shipping e.g., route planning, ship loading and unloading to quay allocation and warehouse planning."

Computers are already being used to develop new medicines. "Quantum computers could simulate molecular biological or chemical systems much faster and more effectively," Axmann stressed. Quantum computing could alsobe used to develop even more individual and effective therapies faster and to calculate interactions between different active substances.

What factors are driving climate change and what measures could be taken to stop the development? "Here, too, quantum computers could improve complex models and simulations," said Axmann.New means of containing and removing emissions are conceivable, or removing existing carbon from the atmosphere.

Such applications are still a long way off, Axmann pointed, but stressed:. "We are gaining new insights every day and are approaching the technological breakthrough of error-corrected,gate-based quantum computers. These systems are crucial for Germany's technological sovereignty in future."

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Three promising fields of application for quantum computing - Hamburg News