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Firing Up Quantum Fidelity

Researchers used the Quantum Computing User Program (QCUP) at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to achieve major improvements in quantum fidelity, a potential step toward more accurate, reliable quantum networks and supercomputers. Quantum computing relies on transfer and storage of information via quantum bits,…
Matt Lakin
January 7, 2022
The Sycamore quantum processor. Photograph by Erik Lucero/GoogleScience

Quantum Processors are Now Challenging Conventional HPC Systems

To prove quantum supremacy, a joint research team from Google Inc., NASA Ames Research Center, and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), needed to rule out that classical supercomputers could perform computational tasks at the same speed as Google’s Sycamore quantum computer. So, they came to the…
Andrea Schneibel
October 23, 2019