Rod Van Meter@dabacon @jenseisert to whom would you attribute the recognition that quantum computers connected via classical networks only cannot solve a problem larger than either alone? We're talking probably 1990s here.
@dabacon @jenseisert possibly also of interest to @fgrosshans and @xgranade who may have answers in their heads.
Frédéric Grosshans
Dra Jara Juana Bermejo-Vega@rdviii @dabacon @jenseisert You mean providing a quantum speedup asymptotically? It remains unproven but partial evidence is usually attributed to the presence of entanglement. I am not sure a single author can be attributed this but the first papers on classical simulation of non-entangled circuits that come to mind are Jozsa - Linden, Vidal and Markov - Shi. This maybe was known as well by many people working on tensor networks.