YQI Seminar - Xavier Waintal - CEA France

Event time: 
Friday, March 12, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Audience: 
Postdoctoral Associates
Location: 
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Event description: 
What does quantum supremacy really mean?
 
About a year ago, Google announced that they had reached a new milestone in quantum computing that they refer to as « quantum supremacy ». They claimed that their quantum chip had performed a task that would take thousands of years to simulate on the largest existing supercomputer. In this talk, I will first review the experimental findings. Then, I will challenge their claim and show that, while it would indeed require an exponentially large computing time to simulate a perfect quantum computer, simulating a real one with a finite fidelity is much easier. I will present how it can be done with quantum states compression techniques borrowed from many-body theory. 
 
Host: Michel Devoret
 
Zoom link (login required): https://yale.zoom.us/j/99749828325