Google’s Quantum Computer Out-Performed the Supercomputer, Summit

According to a report in the Financial Times, a team of researchers from Google led by John Martinis have demonstrated quantum supremacy for the first time. It said that Google’s quantum processor was able to perform a calculation in three minutes and 20 seconds that would take today’s most advanced supercomputer, known as Summit, around 10,000 years.  In the paper, the researchers said that, to their knowledge, the experiment “marks the first computation that can only be performed on a quantum processor.” But the claim appeared in a paper that was posted on a NASA website, and since then the publication has been taken down. There are a few other variables to consider as well.