Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum computers, and the current age of quantum devices. Term coined by [[John Preskill]] in [Quantum Computing in the NISQ era and beyond](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1801.00862.pdf). Pronounced "NISK", according to Preskill himself. [EC:HamLiuSin24 - The NISQ Complexity of Collision Finding](https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/360.pdf) introduserer flere matematiske modeller av NISQ-maskiner, noe som tillater dem å studere kompleksiteten derav analytisk (heller enn heuristisk).