Estimating The Energy Consumption of Quantum Computing from A Full System Aspect

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09580v2
• Date: Tue, 12 May 2026 14:37:16 GMT
• Title: Estimating The Energy Consumption of Quantum Computing from A Full System Aspect
• Abstract summary: We present a first-order, full-system energy model for quantum computing.<n>The model separates costs common to NISQ and FTQC, such as system maintenance and classical processing.<n>We find that NISQ energy is dominated by the QEM sampling multiplier, while FTQC cost shifts to physical-qubit overhead set by the code distance and magic states.
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• Abstract: Quantum computing promises disruptive capabilities, yet its energy footprint has received far less attention than its asymptotic speedups. We present a first-order, full-system energy model for quantum computing in an high performance computing (HPC) context. The model separates costs common to NISQ and FTQC, such as system maintenance and classical processing, from regime-specific ones such as error mitigation for NISQ and error correction for FTQC. We instantiate the model on 96- and 100-qubit Heisenberg time-evolution simulations on IBM Eagle r3 and a representative VQE workload, and sketch the FTQC energy pipeline. We find that NISQ energy is dominated by the QEM sampling multiplier, while FTQC cost shifts to physical-qubit overhead set by the code distance and magic states. Our model provides actionable insights into the energy consumption of both NISQ and FTQC workloads, and paves the way toward energy-efficient quantum advantage.

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