Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor.


Journal

Nature
ISSN: 1476-4687
Titre abrégé: Nature
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0410462

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2019
Historique:
received: 22 07 2019
accepted: 20 09 2019
entrez: 25 10 2019
pubmed: 28 10 2019
medline: 28 10 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor

Identifiants

pubmed: 31645734
doi: 10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5
pii: 10.1038/s41586-019-1666-5
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Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

505-510

Commentaires et corrections

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Auteurs

Frank Arute (F)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Kunal Arya (K)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Ryan Babbush (R)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Dave Bacon (D)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Joseph C Bardin (JC)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA.

Rami Barends (R)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Rupak Biswas (R)

Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

Sergio Boixo (S)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Fernando G S L Brandao (FGSL)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Institute for Quantum Information and Matter, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA.

David A Buell (DA)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Brian Burkett (B)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Yu Chen (Y)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Zijun Chen (Z)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Ben Chiaro (B)

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Roberto Collins (R)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

William Courtney (W)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Andrew Dunsworth (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Edward Farhi (E)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Brooks Foxen (B)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Austin Fowler (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Craig Gidney (C)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Marissa Giustina (M)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Rob Graff (R)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Keith Guerin (K)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Steve Habegger (S)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Matthew P Harrigan (MP)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Michael J Hartmann (MJ)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Department of Physics, Erlangen, Germany.

Alan Ho (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Markus Hoffmann (M)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Trent Huang (T)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Travis S Humble (TS)

Quantum Computing Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

Sergei V Isakov (SV)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Evan Jeffrey (E)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Zhang Jiang (Z)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Dvir Kafri (D)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Kostyantyn Kechedzhi (K)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Julian Kelly (J)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Paul V Klimov (PV)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Sergey Knysh (S)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Alexander Korotkov (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA, USA.

Fedor Kostritsa (F)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

David Landhuis (D)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Mike Lindmark (M)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Erik Lucero (E)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Dmitry Lyakh (D)

Scientific Computing, Oak Ridge Leadership Computing, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.

Salvatore Mandrà (S)

Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc., Greenbelt, MD, USA.

Jarrod R McClean (JR)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Matthew McEwen (M)

Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.

Anthony Megrant (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Xiao Mi (X)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Kristel Michielsen (K)

Institute for Advanced Simulation, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

Masoud Mohseni (M)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Josh Mutus (J)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Ofer Naaman (O)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Matthew Neeley (M)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Charles Neill (C)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Murphy Yuezhen Niu (MY)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Eric Ostby (E)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Andre Petukhov (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

John C Platt (JC)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Chris Quintana (C)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Eleanor G Rieffel (EG)

Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.

Pedram Roushan (P)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Nicholas C Rubin (NC)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Daniel Sank (D)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Kevin J Satzinger (KJ)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Vadim Smelyanskiy (V)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Kevin J Sung (KJ)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Matthew D Trevithick (MD)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Amit Vainsencher (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Benjamin Villalonga (B)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA.

Theodore White (T)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Z Jamie Yao (ZJ)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Ping Yeh (P)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Adam Zalcman (A)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Hartmut Neven (H)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA.

John M Martinis (JM)

Google AI Quantum, Mountain View, CA, USA. jmartinis@google.com.
Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA. jmartinis@google.com.

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