Quantum computing has revolutionary advances in computing due to its powerful computational capa-bilities.It provides a new tool for the computation of complex problems and has been applied in many disciplines and fields.In recent years,quantum computing has been applied in geophysics.The application of quantum algo-rithms and quantum computers provides technical support for revealing the internal structure of the earth and probing deep resources.Quantum computing can improve computation efficiency and has great potential in geo-physics.To this end,the principle of quantum computing is systematically analyzed,and the development sta-tus of the quantum algorithm is summarized.The existing achievements in the fields of geophysical data acquisi-tion,wave field simulation,and inverse problem solving are also summarized.The superiority of the quantum algorithm is verified by establishing the theoretical model and conducting the inversion.Finally,the possible re-search directions of quantum computing in the future are prospected.