December 18, 2024

The race to unlock the true potential of quantum computers just got a whole lot faster. Google's October breakthrough, hailed as a demonstration of quantum computers surpassing traditional supercomputers, has been eclipsed by a new Chinese test boasting a staggering improvement by six orders of magnitude.

The Chinese experiment, conducted on the powerful 105-qubit "Zuchongzhi 3.0" machine, completed a complex task in mere hundreds of seconds. In stark contrast, the world's current supercomputing champion, Frontier, would require an estimated 6 billion years to tackle the same problem.

This achievement, published on arxiv.org on Tuesday, sets a new bar for "quantum computational advantage," a crucial milestone in harnessing the full power of this revolutionary technology. The researchers believe this work opens exciting avenues for exploring how increasing qubit count and circuit complexity can help tackle real-world problems more efficiently.

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