IBM claims ‘quantum supremacy’ over Goo gle with 50 qubit processor
1IBM claims ‘quantum supremacy’ over Google with 50-qubit processor.
IBM researcher Edwin Pednault was doing the dishes one evening when he came to the realization that qubits are a lot like the bristles of a scrubbing brush. What he dubbed as a “seemingly inconsequential moment” became the basis of a fault-tolerance theory which makes the 50-qubit quantum computer possible.
Early last month Google’s quantum computer research team announced it had made strides towards what it dubbed “quantum supremacy.” The big idea was that a 50-qubit quantum computer would surpass the computational capabilities of our most advanced supercomputers, making it superior.
IBM, early this month, successfully built and measured an operational prototype 50-qubit processor.