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              The “quantum ribosome” or quantum processor      4. Conclusion
            (quantum processing unit) sequentially computes big
            data stored traditionally as it encodes big data to Robson   The study is dedicated to the development of quantum
            semantic triples and HDNet as quantum data, the    epidemiology, the next anticipated phase in epidemiology
            computation of which is comparable to a batch sequential   transformation, as new quantum technologies have
            data flow architecture. Depending on the available numbers   emerged. The study highlighted the necessity to investigate
            of qubits, some parts of the data can be entangled to generate   the interaction of viruses with the human population using
            MPS, which would be teleported to QRAM by a QRAM-  quantum theory. The fundamental difference between
            linked  quantum  processor  (e.g.,  chipset).  Teleportation   digital and quantum epidemiology is the implementation
                                                               of quantum logic and reliance on quantum theory. The
            is a promising quantum tool that transports quantum   reliance on superposition, entanglement, parallelism, and
            information from one quantum state to another using   quantum neural networks (i.e., in consideration of data
            entangled pairs or clusters of qubits (Bennett et al., 1993;   uncertainty, multidimensionality, and disconnection)
            Bouwmeester et al., 1997; Huang et al., 2020; Lago-Rivera   ensures the paradigm shift from data-driven to value-
            et al., 2023; Rajiuddin et al., 2020; Sk et al., 2020; Verstraete   driven strategies. In this study, the Quantum Data Lake
            & Verschelde, 2003). Thus, the large and real-time updated   concept was proposed, and it consisted of several layers,
            chain of big data stored traditionally can be sequentially   including a layer denoting quantum databases and
            encoded, computed, and transformed to quantum tensor   quantum tools. In contrast to the advantages of quantum
            networks in QRAM. Sequentially retrieving quantum data   computing (e.g., high-speed performance and large parallel
            from QRAM in the required order enables a quantum   scale), the proposed approach emphasizes the fundamental
            processor to operate with a bigger set of correlated data   uniqueness of quantum theory for modeling due to the
            than it is capable of operating at the physical level.  entanglement of  the  quantum  many-body systems with
              Different data sets (e.g., environmental, social, and   non-Hermitian Hamiltonians. The computation output is
            immune factors; compartmental model SIR; data about eight   a broken PT-symmetry gain/loss equilibrium, commonly
            families of DNA viruses that infect humans; and diseases and   expressed as a complex number, i.e., two possible variants
            clinical symptoms caused by these viruses) can be organized   of epidemic modeling.
            as tensor networks. Changes in the epidemic situation   Nonetheless, it is essential to evaluate the development
            can be predicted by modeling all incoming data using the   of health care for long-term policy planning, especially for
            quantum properties of Hermiticity and non-Hermiticity.   viral infections. In this context, the common evaluations
            The computation output is a broken PT-symmetry gain/  would include the following: estimating the number
            loss equilibrium, normally expressed in complex numbers,   of infected people and forecasting the infection over a
            i.e., two possible variants of epidemic modeling. In addition   specified period depending on different social conditions;
            to the advantages of quantum computing (e.g., high-speed   assessment of the development of the complications due
            performance and large parallel scale), we emphasized   to viral infection, including a forecast of the number of
            the fundamental uniqueness of quantum theory that   death or cancer cases; modeling the potential emergence
            provides new possibilities for modeling, exploiting the   of an epidemic under different environment and social
            PT-symmetric Hamiltonian balance of energy gain/loss   conditions; assessment of coinfections and their impact on
            and spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking. For MERA,    the health-care system, etc.
            non-Hermiticity with spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking
            can theoretically appear as a violation of the entanglement   DNA viral infections significantly impact the morbidity
            monotonicity and local entanglement gain, leading to a   and mortality of the global population, critically damaging
            non-reversible coarse-graining transformation. The duality   multiple organs in an individual, including the development
            of PT-symmetry equilibrium breaking can be compared, for   of different types of cancer. Therefore, advanced models
            example, by simultaneously analyzing the best- and worst-  should be applied to address the alarming morbidity and
            case scenarios, and the gain of entanglement can express a   mortality of viral infections. Notably, the advancement of
            significant correlation between some parameters embedded   quantum databases and the development of the Quantum
            in the data. Figures S10–S18 exemplify the above, i.e., data   Data Lake architecture could have universal applications
            presented as MPS and PEPS, ternary (3-site blocks) MERA   that are not limited to the field of epidemiology and
            with lattice length corresponding to calculated cases, and the   health care.
            assumed version of quantum non-Hermitian many-body   In summation, quantum theory may be the solution
            system (i.e., MERA) with violation of the entanglement   to the challenges faced in sustainable development, and a
            monotonicity and appearance of local entanglement gain   transition into quantum modeling of health-care data may
            due to spontaneous PT-symmetry breaking.           fundamentally establish new insights into health care.


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