- [Preskill - NISQ](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2492/Preskill%2B-%2BNISQ.pdf)
> Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology will be available in the near future. Quantum computers with 50-100 qubits may be able to perform
> tasks which surpass the capabilities of today’s classical digital computers, but noise in quantum gates will limit the size of quantum circuits...


- Sergey Knysh [Zero-temperature quantum annealing bottlenecks in the spin-glass phase](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2415/Zero-temperature_quantum_annealing_bottlenecks_in_.pdf)

> A promising approach to solving hard binary optimization problems is quantum adiabatic
> annealing in a transverse magnetic field.

Technical insights have more general speculations about state preparation problem, applicability of quantum computing, etc.

- Zapata Computing [Variational Quantum Factoring](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1808.08927.pdf)
> ... it seeks an approximate ground state of the resulting Ising Hamiltonian by training variational circuits using the quantum approximate optimization algorithm

## general reviews

[A Near-Term Quantum Computing Approach for Hard Computational Problems in Space Exploration](https://knowen-production.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/attachment/file/2379/Near-Term%2BQComputing%2B-%2BSmelyanskiy%2BKnysh.pdf)

## technical articles

[Experimental investigation of performance differences between coherent Ising machines and a quantum annealer](https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/5/eaau0823)