Alright, let’s cut through the noise. The textbooks are still churning out narratives about the “race for quantum supremacy” as if it’s some far-off, abstract sprint. Meanwhile, down here in the trenches, we’re seeing the first tremors of the quantum threat not in some distant future, but in the immediate feedback loops of our current hardware. It’s the kind of noise that makes you check your calibrations twice, the kind of signal that hints at cryptographic keys being vulnerable *now*, not in the next decade.
The NISQ Race for Quantum Advantage
Forget about waiting for million-qubit, fault-tolerant behemoths. That’s a decade-out daydream, and frankly, a distraction. The real game is being played right now, on NISQ-era hardware, by exploiting the very imperfections we’ve been told to ignore. We’re not talking about theoretical speedups; we’re talking about recovering cryptographic keys. Yeah, you read that right. We’ve managed to resolve 21-qubit ECDLP instances on hardware that, by conventional metrics, should be choking on noise and phantom qubits.
H.O.T. Framework: Reshaping the **Race** for Quantum Supremacy
The typical approach treats decoherence as a showstopper, a brute-force problem to be patched with layers of error correction that are still decades away. That’s the textbook thinking. We’re doing the opposite. Our **Hardware-Optimized Techniques (H.O.T.) Framework** treats noise not as an enemy, but as a *signal*. It’s a three-layer system: V5 Orphan Measurement Exclusion, Recursive Geometric Circuitry, and ECDLP Benchmarks.
Precise Programming in the Quantum Supremacy Race
The result? We’re seeing ECDLP instances resolved on current hardware that are far beyond the perceived limits of NISQ devices under standard assumptions. We’re not claiming to have a path to universal fault tolerance; that’s not the point. We’re demonstrating that precise quantum programming – the geometry, the recursion, the measurement logic – can extend the *practical* boundary of what today’s hardware can achieve, directly impacting **quantum threat mitigation**.
The Quantum Race: Noise, Vulnerability, and the Imminent Threat
This isn’t about “quantum supremacy” as a theoretical milestone. It’s about the imminent vulnerability of RSA and ECC encryption. Our work shows that by treating noise as a signal and leveraging hardware constraints, you can extract meaningful computational power *now*. The real quantum threat isn’t coming; it’s already here, whispering in the noise. Job ID `ibmq-montreal-qiskit-20231027-145311-275164-74964-124961` shows a 14-bit ECDLP resolved at rank 535/1038. The circuit ran for 59x its mean $T_2$. It shouldn’t have worked. But it did.
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