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Google says success in 鈥榪uantum computing鈥
Google said it has achieved a breakthrough in quantum computing research, saying an experimental quantum processor has completed a calculation in just a few minutes that would take a traditional supercomputer thousands of years. But IBM took issue with Google鈥檚 claim.
The findings, published yesterday in the scientific journal Nature, show that 鈥渜uantum speedup is achievable in a real-world system and is not precluded by any hidden physical laws,鈥 the researchers wrote.
Quantum computing is a nascent and somewhat bewildering technology for vastly sped-up information processing. Quantum computers might one day revolutionize tasks that would take existing computers years, including the hunt for new drugs and optimizing city and transportation planning.
The technique relies on quantum bits, or qubits, which can register data values of zero and one 鈥 the language of modern computing 鈥 simultaneously. Big tech companies Google, Microsoft, IBM and Intel are avidly pursuing the technology.
Pushback
鈥淨uantum things can be in multiple places at the same time,鈥 said Chris Monroe, a University of Maryland physicist who is also the founder of quantum startup IonQ. 鈥淭he rules are very simple. They鈥檙e just confounding.鈥
Google鈥檚 findings, however, are already facing pushback from other industry researchers. A version of Google鈥檚 paper leaked online last month and researchers caught a glimpse before it was taken down.
IBM quickly took issue with Google鈥檚 claim that it had achieved 鈥渜uantum supremacy,鈥 a term that refers to a point when a quantum computer can perform a calculation that a traditional computer can鈥檛 complete within its lifetime. Google鈥檚 leaked paper showed its quantum processor, Sycamore, finished a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds 鈥 and that it would take the world鈥檚 fastest supercomputer 10,000 years to do the same thing.
But IBM researchers say Google underestimated the conventional supercomputer, called Summit which could do the calculation in 2.5 days. Summit was developed by IBM and is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
The calculation employed by Google has little practical use, wrote John Preskill, a Caltech professor who coined the 鈥渜uantum supremacy鈥 term.
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