A blueprint for demonstrating quantum supremacy with superconducting qubits.
Charles Neill,Pedram Roushan,Kostyantyn Kechedzhi,Kostyantyn Kechedzhi,Sergio Boixo,Sergei V. Isakov,Vadim Smelyanskiy,Anthony Megrant,Benjamin Chiaro,Andrew Dunsworth,Kunal Arya,Rami Barends,B. Burkett,Yu Chen,Zijun Chen,Austin G. Fowler,Brooks Foxen,Marissa Giustina,R. Graff,Evan Jeffrey,Trent Huang,Julian Kelly,Paul V. Klimov,E. Lucero,Josh Mutus,Matthew Neeley,Chris Quintana,Daniel Sank,Amit Vainsencher,James Wenner,Ted White,Hartmut Neven,John M. Martinis,John M. Martinis +33 more
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Nine superconducting qubits are used to demonstrate a promising path toward quantum supremacy and the scaling of errors and output with the number of qubits is explored in a five- to nine-qubit device.Abstract:
A key step toward demonstrating a quantum system that can address difficult problems in physics and chemistry will be performing a computation beyond the capabilities of any classical computer, thus achieving so-called quantum supremacy. In this study, we used nine superconducting qubits to demonstrate a promising path toward quantum supremacy. By individually tuning the qubit parameters, we were able to generate thousands of distinct Hamiltonian evolutions and probe the output probabilities. The measured probabilities obey a universal distribution, consistent with uniformly sampling the full Hilbert space. As the number of qubits increases, the system continues to explore the exponentially growing number of states. Extending these results to a system of 50 qubits has the potential to address scientific questions that are beyond the capabilities of any classical computer.read more
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Supplementary information for "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor"
Frank Arute,Kunal Arya,Ryan Babbush,Dave Bacon,Joseph C. Bardin,Rami Barends,Rupak Biswas,Sergio Boixo,Fernando G. S. L. Brandão,David A. Buell,B. Burkett,Yu Chen,Zijun Chen,Ben Chiaro,Roberto Collins,William Courtney,Andrew Dunsworth,Edward Farhi,Brooks Foxen,Austin G. Fowler,Craig Gidney,Marissa Giustina,R. Graff,Keith Guerin,Steve Habegger,Matthew P. Harrigan,Michael J. Hartmann,Alan Ho,Markus R. Hoffmann,Trent Huang,Travis S. Humble,Sergei V. Isakov,Evan Jeffrey,Zhang Jiang,Dvir Kafri,Kostyantyn Kechedzhi,Julian Kelly,Paul V. Klimov,Sergey Knysh,Alexander N. Korotkov,Fedor Kostritsa,David Landhuis,Mike Lindmark,Erik Lucero,Dmitry I. Lyakh,Salvatore Mandrà,Jarrod R. McClean,Matt McEwen,Anthony Megrant,Xiao Mi,Kristel Michielsen,Masoud Mohseni,Josh Mutus,Ofer Naaman,Matthew Neeley,Charles Neill,Murphy Yuezhen Niu,Eric Ostby,Andre Petukhov,John Platt,Chris Quintana,Eleanor Rieffel,Pedram Roushan,Nicholas C. Rubin,Daniel Sank,Kevin J. Satzinger,Vadim Smelyanskiy,Kevin Sung,Matthew D. Trevithick,Amit Vainsencher,Benjamin Villalonga,Theodore White,Z. Jamie Yao,Ping Yeh,Adam Zalcman,Hartmut Neven,John M. Martinis +76 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an updated version of supplementary information to accompany "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor", an article published in the October 24, 2019 issue of Nature, is presented.
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Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Frank Arute,Kunal Arya,Ryan Babbush,Dave Bacon,Joseph C. Bardin,Joseph C. Bardin,Rami Barends,Rupak Biswas,Sergio Boixo,Fernando G. S. L. Brandão,Fernando G. S. L. Brandão,David A. Buell,B. Burkett,Yu Chen,Zijun Chen,Ben Chiaro,Roberto Collins,William Courtney,Andrew Dunsworth,Edward Farhi,Brooks Foxen,Brooks Foxen,Austin G. Fowler,Craig Gidney,Marissa Giustina,R. Graff,Keith Guerin,Steve Habegger,Matthew P. Harrigan,Michael J. Hartmann,Michael J. Hartmann,Alan Ho,Markus R. Hoffmann,Trent Huang,Travis S. Humble,Sergei V. Isakov,Evan Jeffrey,Zhang Jiang,Dvir Kafri,Kostyantyn Kechedzhi,Julian Kelly,Paul V. Klimov,Sergey Knysh,Alexander N. Korotkov,Alexander N. Korotkov,Fedor Kostritsa,David Landhuis,Mike Lindmark,E. Lucero,Dmitry I. Lyakh,Salvatore Mandrà,Jarrod R. McClean,Matt McEwen,Anthony Megrant,Xiao Mi,Kristel Michielsen,Kristel Michielsen,Masoud Mohseni,Josh Mutus,Ofer Naaman,Matthew Neeley,Charles Neill,Murphy Yuezhen Niu,Eric Ostby,Andre Petukhov,John Platt,Chris Quintana,Eleanor Rieffel,Pedram Roushan,Nicholas C. Rubin,Daniel Sank,Kevin J. Satzinger,Vadim Smelyanskiy,Kevin J. Sung,Kevin J. Sung,Matthew D. Trevithick,Amit Vainsencher,Benjamin Villalonga,Benjamin Villalonga,Theodore White,Z. Jamie Yao,Ping Yeh,Adam Zalcman,Hartmut Neven,John M. Martinis,John M. Martinis +85 more
TL;DR: Quantum supremacy is demonstrated using a programmable superconducting processor known as Sycamore, taking approximately 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times, which would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer around ten thousand years to compute.
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A quantum engineer's guide to superconducting qubits
Philip Krantz,Philip Krantz,Morten Kjaergaard,Fei Yan,Terry P. Orlando,Simon Gustavsson,William D. Oliver +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an introductory guide to the central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting quantum circuits, including qubit design, noise properties, qubit control and readout techniques.
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A Quantum Engineer's Guide to Superconducting Qubits
Philip Krantz,Philip Krantz,Morten Kjaergaard,Fei Yan,Terry P. Orlando,Simon Gustavsson,William D. Oliver +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an introductory guide to the central concepts and challenges in the rapidly accelerating field of superconducting quantum circuits, including qubit design, noise properties, qubit control, and readout techniques.
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