Google and NASA Achieve Quantum Supremacy

Frank Tavares

Published Jan 1, 2019• 5 citations

Abstract

Google, in partnership with NASA and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has demonstrated the ability to compute in seconds what would take even the largest and most advanced supercomputers thousands of years, achieving a milestone known as quantum supremacy.

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