When: December 19, 16:00
Where: Skoltech, E-B2-3007 (New Campus)
CPQM Seminar:
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Vadim Smelyanskiy
Google Quantum AI
Abstract:
A critical question for the field of quantum computing is whether quantum devices without error correction can perform a well-defined computational task beyond the capabilities of state-of-the-art classical computers, achieving so-called quantum supremacy. I will describe the recent result of reaching this milestone with Google quantum computer. I will describe the computational task, sampling from the output distributions of (pseudo-) random quantum circuits and discuss the physics aspects of the quantum chaotic evolution that gave rise to the distribution in question. I will provide an overview of the experiment with 53 qubits, design of superconducting qubit system, benchmarking procedures for the high-fidelity quantum gates and multi-qubit quantum circuits.
BIO:
Vadim Smelyanskiy is Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google, leading Physics group in Quantum Computing team. He received his degree in Theoretical Physics 1992 from Institute of Semiconductors, Kiev, Ukraine. He had postdoctoral fellowships at Michigan State University and Princeton. He worked at NASA Ames between 2000 and 2015 joining Google afterwords. Vadim works on quantum optimization algorithms, noise analysis, control, gate design and calibration in quantum devices.