Latest Quantum Research & Methods News

  • Apr- 2021 -
    16 April
    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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  • 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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  • 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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