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by amai 2460 days ago
It should be mentioned that IBM managed to simulate a 56 qubit version of the same problem Google describes in the paper (see https://pastebin.com/RfUMXJZE) on a classical super computer:

- https://www.ibm.com/blogs/research/2017/10/quantum-computing...

- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151032-googles-quantum...

So technically Google cannot claim to reach quantum supremancy with only 54 qubits as described in the paper.