[Verse 1] In the quantum wilderness between theory and dream Fifty to a thousand qubits dance their fragile scheme Not enough for Shor's algorithm to break the cryptographic wall But too noisy for perfection, we're caught between it all NISQ era quantum computers, swimming in their own mistakes Every calculation trembles as coherence slowly breaks [Chorus] Noisy Intermediate-Scale, that's where we stand today Fifty to a thousand qubits showing us the way Short coherence windows, errors creeping through each gate NISQ is now, not later, quantum's current fate Intermediate scale, noisy but real NISQ era quantum, this is what we feel [Verse 2] Microseconds tick away before the quantum states collapse Error rates climb higher with each computational lapse No fault tolerance safety net to catch us when we fall But variational algorithms answer NISQ's call Optimize parameters, let classical computers guide Hybrid approaches flourish where pure quantum can't decide [Chorus] Noisy Intermediate-Scale, that's where we stand today Fifty to a thousand qubits showing us the way Short coherence windows, errors creeping through each gate NISQ is now, not later, quantum's current fate Intermediate scale, noisy but real NISQ era quantum, this is what we feel [Bridge] Chemistry simulations, optimization games Quantum machine learning, sampling strange domains Not cryptography breaking, not yet that powerful But glimpsing quantum advantage in problems beautiful NISQ devices teaching us the quantum computing art Building toward the future, playing our current part [Chorus] Noisy Intermediate-Scale, that's where we stand today Fifty to a thousand qubits showing us the way Short coherence windows, errors creeping through each gate NISQ is now, not later, quantum's current fate Intermediate scale, noisy but real NISQ era quantum, this is what we feel [Outro] Between classical limits and quantum dreams complete NISQ era shows us quantum advantage we can meet Noisy, intermediate, but quantum just the same NISQ era quantum, remember this name
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