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Yeah a couple of related problems in fact: You are a professor and working on cold quantum gases, synthetic quantum systems, ... and can semi-plausibly claim that this has applications to quantum computing: Problem solved, you will get a whole bunch of funding. You found a bunch of linear algebra algebra algorithms and they use unitary matrices: Problem solved, founding secured.

It is also a good buzzword prefix: Just prepend Quantum to any word and immediately get funding (See the recently 1 Billion Euro funded EU quantum initiative).

In this respect it has similar applications as Neuro-something: A great way to get funding for a few years. (See Human Brain Project)



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