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2021 Year in Review: Google Quantum AI
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Google’s Quantum AI team has had a productive 2021.
Key facts
- Their collaborators contributed to, and even inspired, some of their most impactful research in 2021
- The team also released an open-source tool called stim, which provides a 10000x speedup when simulating error correction circuits
- Resident quantum scientist Qubit the Dog taking part in a holiday sing-along led by team members Jimmy Chen and Ofer Naaman
- Through teamwork, collaboration, and some innovative science, they are excited about the progress that they have seen in 2021
Summary
The Quantum AI team is determined to build an error-corrected quantum computer within the next decade, and to simultaneously use what they learn along the way to deliver helpful—and even transformational as was most recently reflected in their experimental observation of a time crystal on a quantum processor ( Ask a Techspert: What exactly is a time crystal? ). Their collaborators contributed to, and even inspired, some of their most impactful research in 2021. This year, at Google’s annual developer conference, Google the reporter/O, they reaffirmed their commitment to the roadmap and investments required to make a useful quantum computer within the decade. The release of a new Fermionic Quantum Simulator for quantum chemistry applications in collaboration with QSimulate, taking advantage of the symmetry in quantum chemistry problems to provide efficient simulations.