Tag Archives: quantum supremacy

The Google Supremacy Experiment: Data, Information, Discussions, and Three Questions.

Posted on October 7, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Yosi Rinott, Tomer Shoham, and I  wrote a manuscript regarding our study of the Google 2019 supremacy experiment. This is still a draft and comments or corrections are most welcome. (The paper already incorporates a few comments by the Google … Continue reading →

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Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all

Posted on August 6, 2022 by Gil Kalai

Science magazine has an article written by Adrian Cho Ordinary computers can beat Google’s quantum computer after all. It is about the remarkable progress in classical simulations of sampling task like those sampling tasks that led to the 2019 Google’s … Continue reading →

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The Argument Against Quantum Computers – A Very Short Introduction

Posted on December 29, 2020 by Gil Kalai

Left: Gowers’s book Mathematics a very short introduction. Right C. elegans; Boson Sampling can be seen as the C. elegans of quantum computing. (See, this paper.) Update (January 6, 2021): Tomorrow January, 7, 8:30 AM Israel time, I give a … Continue reading →

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Photonic Huge Quantum Advantage ???

Posted on December 6, 2020 by Gil Kalai

This is a quick and preliminary post about a very recent announcement in a Science Magazine paper: Quantum computational advantage using photons by a group of researchers leaded by Jianwei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu. (Most of the researchers are from … Continue reading →

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The Google Quantum Supremacy Demo and the Jerusalem HQCA debate.

Posted on December 27, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Below are 10 annotated slides from a spontaneous informal talk that I gave at the school on mathematics of quantum computing a weak ago. (Power point presentation.) Later in the afternoon we had  a panel/debate on quantum supremacy (click for … Continue reading →

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The story of Poincaré and his friend the baker

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Gil Kalai

Update: After the embargo update (Oct 25): Now that I have some answers from the people involved let me make a quick update: 1) I still find the paper unconvincing, specifically, the few verifiable experiments (namely experiments that can be … Continue reading →

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Noisy quantum circuits: how do we know that we have robust experimental outcomes at all? (And do we care?)

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Gil Kalai

In a recent post we discussed Google’s claim of achieving “quantum supremacy” and my reasons to think that these claims will not stand. (See also this comment for necessary requirements from a quantum supremacy experiment.) This debate gives a good … Continue reading →

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