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Physics World

Efficiency boost for quantum computer

Tim Wogan

Published Jun 1, 2020• 1 citation
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Abstract

Researchers in the US have created a new energy-based benchmark for “quantum advantage” and have used it to show that quantum computers use several orders of magnitude less energy than the world’s most powerful supercomputer when doing a specific task
DOI
10.1088/2058-7058/33/6/8

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