Quantum technologies need a Quantum Energy Initiative

Abstract

Quantum technologies are currently the object of high expectations from governments and private companies, as they hold the promise to shape safer and faster ways to extract, exchange and treat information. However, despite its major potential impact for industry and society, the question of their energetic footprint has remained in a blind spot of current deployment strategies. In this Perspective, I argue that quantum technologies must urgently plan for the creation and structuration of a transverse quantum energy initiative, connecting quantum thermodynamics, quantum information science, quantum physics and engineering. Such initiative is the only path towards energy efficient, sustainable quantum technologies, and to possibly bring out an energetic quantum advantage.

Submitted as a Perspective in PRX Quantum

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