Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achieve Quantum Supremacy

Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achieve Quantum Supremacy

  • March 8, 2018
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Google Engineers Think This 72-Qubit Processor Can Achieve Quantum Supremacy

On Monday, Google researcher Julian Kelly unveiled Bristlecone, the company’s new record-breaking 72-qubit quantum processor, at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Los Angeles. Kelly and his colleagues at Google’s Quantum AI lab hope this processor will be the first chip to achieve quantum supremacy, the point at which quantum computers can perform calculations that are beyond the capabilities of even the most advanced supercomputers.

Source: vice.com

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