Sycamore processor explained

Sycamore is a transmon superconducting quantum processor created by Google's Artificial Intelligence division.[1] It has 53 qubits.[2]

In 2019, Sycamore completed a task in 200 seconds that Google claimed, in a Nature paper, would take a state-of-the-art supercomputer 10,000 years to finish. Thus, Google claimed to have achieved quantum supremacy. To estimate the time that would be taken by a classical supercomputer, Google ran portions of the quantum circuit simulation on the Summit, one of the most powerful classical computers in the world.[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Later, IBM made a counter-argument, claiming that the task would only take 2.5 days on a classical system like Summit.[9] [10] If Google's claims are upheld, then it would represent an exponential leap in computing power.[11] [12] [13]

In August 2020, quantum engineers working for Google reported the largest chemical simulation on a quantum computer – a Hartree–Fock approximation with Sycamore paired with a classical computer that analyzed results to provide new parameters for the 12-qubit system.[14] [15] [16]

In April 2021, researchers working with Sycamore reported that they were able to realize the ground state of the toric code, a topologically ordered state, with 31 qubits. They showed long-range entanglement properties of the state by measuring non-zero topological entropy, simulating anyon interferometry and their braiding statistics, and preparing a topological quantum error correcting code with one logical qubit.[17]

In July 2021, a collaboration consisting of Google and multiple universities reported the observation of a discrete time crystal on the Sycamore processor. The chip of 20 qubits was used to obtain a many-body localization configuration of up and down spins. The configuration was stimulated with a laser to achieve a periodically driven "Floquet" system where all up spins are flipped for down and vice versa in periodic cycles which are multiples of the laser's cycles. No energy was absorbed from the laser so the system remained in a protected eigenstate order.[18] [19]

In 2022, the Sycamore processor was used to simulate traversable wormhole dynamics.[20]

The german Forschungszentrum Jülich cooperated with Google in developing the Sycamore quantum computer, and it will be home to the first universal quantum computer developed in Europe as part of the OpenSuperQ project.[21] [22]

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Notes and References

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  7. Hello quantum world! Google publishes landmark quantum supremacy claim . 23 October 2019 . Elizabeth . Gibney . Nature . 574 . 7779 . 461–462 . 10.1038/d41586-019-03213-z . 31645740 . 2019Natur.574..461G . 204836839 . free.
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  9. Web site: On "Quantum Supremacy" . 22 October 2019 . IBM Research Blog . 28 October 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191101012410/https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2019/10/on-quantum-supremacy/ . 1 November 2019 . dead.
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  11. Web site: Quantum supremacy? Done. Now the hard work begins for mere quantum practicality . Stephen . Shankland . CNET . 25 October 2019.
  12. Web site: Hands-On with Google's Quantum Computer . Neil . Savage . Scientific American . 24 October 2019.
  13. Web site: No, Google and Its Quantum Computer Aren't Killing Bitcoin Anytime Soon . Eric . Mack . 24 October 2019 . Inc.com.
  14. News: Google conducts largest chemical simulation on a quantum computer to date . Phys.org . 28 August 2020 . Bob . Yirka . 7 September 2020 . en.
  15. News: Savage . Neil . Google's Quantum Computer Achieves Chemistry Milestone . Scientific American . 24 October 2019 . 7 September 2020 . en.
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  19. Web site: Wolchover . Natalie . 30 July 2021 . Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real . 30 July 2021 . Quanta Magazine . en.
  20. Traversable wormhole dynamics on a quantum processor . 10.1038/s41586-022-05424-3 . 2022 . Jafferis . Daniel . Zlokapa . Alexander . Lykken . Joseph D. . Kolchmeyer . David K. . Davis . Samantha I. . Lauk . Nikolai . Neven . Hartmut . Spiropulu . Maria . Nature . 612 . 7938 . 51–55 . 36450904 . 2022Natur.612...51J . 254099207.
  21. Web site: 2019-07-08 . Google Strikes Quantum Research Partnership with Forschungszentrum Jülich . 2022-04-06 . HPCwire . en-US.
  22. Web site: A Quantum Computer for Europe OpenSuperQ . 2022-04-06 . opensuperq.eu.

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