Citation: Landauer, Rolf. "Is quantum mechanics useful?." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Physical and Engineering Sciences 353.1703 (1995): 367-376.
Web: https://www.jstor.org/stable/54534
Tags: Philosophical
This paper raised a "warning bell" for quantum computation: maybe errors in quantum computers are such a big problem that they cannot be solved. It's not at all obvious that fault-tolerant quantum computation is possible, so it was a big deal when it was achieved. Rolf Landauer kept talking about this in the follow-up paper
> Landauer, Rolf. "The physical nature of information." Physics letters A 217.4-5 (1996): 188-193.
Of course, we have since solved the problem!