{"id":110745,"date":"2020-08-01T20:09:54","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/d-waves-path-to-5000-qubits-googles-quantum-supremacy-claim"},"modified":"2020-08-01T20:09:54","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T03:09:54","slug":"d-waves-path-to-5000-qubits-googles-quantum-supremacy-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/d-waves-path-to-5000-qubits-googles-quantum-supremacy-claim","title":{"rendered":"D-Wave\u2019s Path to 5000 Qubits; Google\u2019s Quantum Supremacy Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/d-waves-path-to-5000-qubits-googles-quantum-supremacy-claim.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the heels of IBM\u2019s quantum <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hpcwire.com\/2019\/09\/19\/ibm-opens-quantum-computing-center-announces-53-qubit-machine\/\">news<\/a> last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn\u2019t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Last week a Google draft paper, discovered by the Financial Times, claimed attaining Quantum Supremacy using a 53-qubit superconducting processor. The paper found on NASA\u2019s website was later withdrawn. Conversation around it has been bubbling in the QC community since.<\/p>\n<p>More on D-Wave\u2019s announcements later \u2013 the Advantage system isn\u2019t expected to be broadly available until mid-2020 which is roughly in keeping with its stated plans. The Google work on quantum supremacy is fascinating. Google has declined to comment on the paper. How FT became aware of the paper isn\u2019t clear. A few observers suggest it looks like an early draft.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum supremacy, of course, is the notion of a quantum computer doing something that classical computers simply can\u2019t reasonably do. In this instance, the reported Google paper claimed it was able to perform as task (a particular random number generation) on its QC in 200 seconds versus what would take on the order 10,000 years on a supercomputer. In an archived copy of the draft that <em>HPCwire <\/em>was able to find, the authors say they \u201cestimated the classical computational cost\u201d of running supremacy circuits on Summit and on a large Google cluster. (For an excellent discussion of quantum supremacy see Scott Aaronson\u2019s (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.utexas.edu\/people\/faculty-researchers\/scott-aaronson\">University of Texas<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=4317\">blog<\/a> yesterday, Scott\u2019s Supreme Quantum Supremacy FAQ) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heels of IBM\u2019s quantum news last week come two more quantum items. D-Wave Systems today announced the name of its forthcoming 5000-qubit system, Advantage (yes the name choice isn\u2019t serendipity), at its user conference being held this week in Newport, RI. Last week a Google draft paper, discovered by the Financial Times, claimed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-physics","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}