Latest Quantum Research & Methods News

  • Jun- 2021 -
    30 June
    Industry & Ecosystem News Zuchongzhi 2.0

    Zuchongzhi 2.0: China’s Superconducting Quantum Leap

    A team of Chinese physicists has unveiled Zuchongzhi 2.0, a cutting-edge 66-qubit superconducting quantum computing prototype that pushes the frontiers of computational power. Announced by the CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information, this new quantum machine builds on its predecessor (Zuchongzhi 1.0) with more qubits and higher fidelity, achieving a milestone known as quantum computational advantage (or “quantum supremacy”)…

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  • May- 2021 -
    30 May
    Industry & Ecosystem News Zuchongzhi 2.0

    Zuchongzhi 1.0: China’s New Superconducting Processor

    In May 2021, scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) unveiled Zuchongzhi 1.0, a 62-qubit programmable superconducting quantum computer that set a new benchmark in the quantum computing race. Named after a 5th-century Chinese mathematician, Zuchongzhi 1.0 contains the largest number of superconducting qubits ever assembled in a single processor so far​.

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  • Dec- 2020 -
    8 December
    Industry & Ecosystem NewsJiuzhang Quantum Processor

    China’s Jiuzhang Achieves Photonic Quantum Advantage

    A team of Chinese scientists has announced a breakthrough in quantum computing with the development of Jiuzhang, a photonic quantum processor that achieved a major computational milestone. In experiments reported on December 3, 2020, Jiuzhang completed in 200 seconds a mathematical problem that researchers estimate would take a classical supercomputer on the order of 2.5 billion years to solve​.

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  • Dec- 2019 -
    7 December
    Research News Factoring RSA 2048 20M

    Breaking RSA-2048 With 20M Noisy Qubit

    An interesting paper was published on arXiv, the preprint server. Titled “How to factor 2048 bit RSA integers in 8 hours using 20 million noisy qubits,” the paper by Craig Gidney and Martin Ekerå combines previous techniques from Shor (1994), Griffiths-Niu (1996), Zalka (2006), Fowler (2012), Ekerå-Håstad (2017), Ekerå (2017, 2018), Gidney-Fowler (2019), and Gidney (2019) to significantly reduce the…

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  • Oct- 2019 -
    26 October
    Industry & Ecosystem News Google Sycamore

    Google’s Sycamore Achieves Quantum Supremacy

    Google announced that its 53-qubit quantum processor, Sycamore, has achieved a long-anticipated milestone known as “quantum supremacy.” In a paper published in Nature, the Google AI Quantum team reported that Sycamore performed a specific computation in approximately 200 seconds – a task they estimated would take the world’s fastest classical supercomputer at least 10,000 years to complete​.

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