Sycamore processor

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Sycamore is the name of Google's quantum processor, comprising 54 qubits.

In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google ran portions of the quantum circuit simulation on the Summit, the most powerful classical computer in the world.[1][2][3][4] Later, IBM made a counter-argument, claiming that the task would only take 2.5 days on a classical system like Summit.[5]

References

  1. Arute, Frank; Arya, Kunal; Babbush, Ryan; Bacon, Dave; Bardin, Joseph C.; Barends, Rami; Biswas, Rupak; Boixo, Sergio et al. (October 2019). "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor". Nature 574 (7779): 505–510. doi:10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 31645734. 
  2. "Google claims 'quantum supremacy' for computer". BBC News. 23 October 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50154993. 
  3. "Hello quantum world! Google publishes landmark quantum supremacy claim". Nature. 23 October 2019. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03213-z. 
  4. "Google Claims Breakthrough in Blazingly Fast Computing" (in en-US). The New York Times. 2019-10-23. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/10/23/us/bc-us-google-quantum-computing.html. 
  5. "On "Quantum Supremacy"". 2019-10-22. https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/.