Google scientists recently released a pre-printed paper on the ArXiv platform, saying that a major breakthrough in quantum computers can be completed in seconds, a classical supercomputer needs 47 years to complete the task of computing.
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Google launched the 53-qubit Sycamore processor in 2019, and this experiment has further upgraded the Sycamore processor, which has been upgraded to 70 quantum bits.
Google said that after upgrading the Sycamore processor, its performance was 241 million times higher than the previous version, although it was affected by other factors such as coherence time.
In the experiment, the scientists performed a random circuit sampling task. In quantum computing, this involves testing the performance of a quantum computer by running random circuits and analyzing the resulting output to assess its capabilities and efficiency in solving complex problems.
Google says that what the industry’s most advanced supercomputer, Frontier, takes 47.2 years to compute, the 53-qubit Sycamore processor can do in just 6.18 seconds, and the new version of the 70-qubit Sycamore processor is even faster.
