The Financial Times reports that Google briefly published a paper on the NASA website titled “Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor” – which was then taken down (which retrieved a copy before it was taken down). Google’s quantum computer was said to have solved in 3 minutes and 20 seconds a calculation that would take the world’s fastest supercomputer approx. 10,000 years. “To our knowledge this experiment marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor,” the paper said
Big moment! Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy, taking 3 mins to do a calculation classical computers would take 10,000 YEARS to do. https://t.co/XjaDpa82XS
— Stephen Foley (@stephenfoley) September 20, 2019
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