{"id":207713,"date":"2025-03-03T21:02:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/superconducting-quantum-processor-prototype-operates-10%c2%b9%e2%81%b5-times-faster-than-fastest-supercomputer"},"modified":"2025-03-03T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T03:02:48","slug":"superconducting-quantum-processor-prototype-operates-10%c2%b9%e2%81%b5-times-faster-than-fastest-supercomputer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/superconducting-quantum-processor-prototype-operates-10%c2%b9%e2%81%b5-times-faster-than-fastest-supercomputer","title":{"rendered":"Superconducting quantum processor prototype operates 10\u00b9\u2075 times faster than fastest supercomputer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superconducting-quantum-processor-prototype-operates-10c2b9e281b5-times-faster-than-fastest-supercomputer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zuchongzhi-3, a superconducting quantum computing prototype with 105 qubits and 182 couplers, has made significant advancements in random quantum circuit sampling. This prototype was successfully developed by a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC).<\/p>\n<p>This prototype operates at a speed that is 10<sup>15<\/sup> times faster than the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fastest+supercomputer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fastest supercomputer<\/a> currently available and one million times faster than the latest results published by Google. This achievement marks a milestone in enhancing the performance of quantum computation, following the success of Zuchongzhi-2. The research findings have been <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.090601\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> as the cover article in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Quantum supremacy is the demonstration of a quantum computer capable of performing tasks that are infeasible for classical computers. In 2019, Google\u2019s 53-qubit Sycamore processor completed a random circuit sampling task in 200 seconds, a task that would have taken approximately 10,000 years to simulate on the world\u2019s fastest supercomputer at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zuchongzhi-3, a superconducting quantum computing prototype with 105 qubits and 182 couplers, has made significant advancements in random quantum circuit sampling. This prototype was successfully developed by a research team from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). This prototype operates at a speed that is 1015 times faster than the fastest supercomputer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1617,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207713","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\/207713","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}