Google uncovers how quantum computers can beat today’s best supercomputers

Quantum machines have a noise threshold past which classical machines cannot best them, researchers have learnt.
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Ever since the first quantum computers were dreamt up in the early 1980s, researchers have looked forward to the day the devices could solve problems that are too difficult for classical computers. In the past five years, the machines have finally begun to challenge their classical cousins — although definitive victory over them has remained elusive.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-03288-3

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  • Clarification 21 October 2024: An earlier version of this story said that Quantinuum is a computer software firm. It also produces hardware and is generally a quantum-computing company.

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