Hello quantum world! Google publishes landmark quantum supremacy claim (original) (raw)

The company says that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine.

Scientists at Google say that they have achieved quantum supremacy, a long-awaited milestone in quantum computing. The announcement, published in Nature on 23 October, follows a leak of an early version of the paper five weeks ago, which Google did not comment on at the time.

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Nature 574, 461-462 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03213-z

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