Physicists led by Chao-Yang Lu and Jian-Wei Pan of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Shanghai performed a technique called Gaussian boson sampling with their quantum computer, named Jiŭzhāng.
The Jiuzhang quantum computer has achieved quantum supremacy (quantum advantage), according to the study “Quantum computational advantage using photons”, published in Science on 3 December 2020. Pan Jian-Wei, professor, University of Science and Technology of China, explains how the Jiuzhang quantum computer was used.
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Quantum computational advantage using photons
Han-Sen Zhong, Hui Wang, Yu-Hao Deng, Ming-Cheng Chen, Li-Chao Peng, Yi-Han Luo, Jian Qin, Dian Wu, Xing Ding, Yi Hu, Peng Hu, Xiao-Yan Yang, Wei-Jun Zhang, Hao Li, Yuxuan Li, Xiao Jiang, Lin Gan, Guangwen Yang, Lixing You, Zhen Wang, Li Li, Nai-Le Liu, Chao-Yang Lu, Jian-Wei Pan
Science, DOI: 10.1126/science.abe8770
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