Google AI Quantum press resources

Google's researchers have achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy. The result was published today on the cover of Nature's 150th anniversary issue.

Blog posts

Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about what this milestone means for the future of computing. Read the post.

Lead scientists on Google's quantum computing team delve deeper into the details behind the quantum achievement. Read the post.

Keyword post

A quick summary of the news, with a video about the team. Read the post.

Videos

Videos | B-roll

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and lead scientists at the Google AI quantum computing lab in Santa Barbara, CA.


Videos | Interview clips

In these clips, Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about quantum's "hello world" moment, Google's big moonshots, the complexities of quantum computing, and what the journey to this breakthrough tells us about scientific discovery.

“Quantum computing gives us a chance to not only achieve many practical use cases, and help make the world better in a way that we cannot do just with classical computers alone. But it also allows us to help understand the universe in a deeper way.”

“Today’s achievement is a good reminder that scientific breakthroughs are marathons; they’re not sprints.”

“At Google we’ve always believed in long-term bets. We call them moonshots. And we’ve always known that quantum computing is one of those important moon shots.”

Photo Gallery

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and the Google AI Quantum team at their quantum computing lab in Santa Barbara, CA.
Sundar Pichai with one of Google's quantum computers in the Santa Barbara lab.
Sundar Pichai (left), Matthew Neeley (right)
Left to right: Sundar Pichai, Pedram Roushan, John Martinis
Sundar Pichai (left), Daniel Sank (right)
Sundar Pichai (left), John Martinis (right)
Left to right: Evan Jeffrey, Sundar Pichai, John Martinis, Roberto Collins

Technical visuals

Caption: Scientists and engineers at Google maintaining the dilution refrigerator which houses the Sycamore chip used to demonstrate the quantum supremacy experiment. Clockwise from top: Anthony Megrant, Ted White, Andrew Dunsworth (far right), Jaime Yao, Brian Burkett, Ping Yeh.
Caption: Research scientists Amit Vainsencher (front) and Ofer Naaman (back) at Google assembling and testing microwave cables to control qubits at millikelvin temperatures.
Caption: Scaling of the computational cost and memory requirements for using various classical algorithms to verify the results obtained by the quantum processor.
Caption: A Sycamore chip mounted in the printed circuit board during the packaging process.
Caption: The Sycamore processor. a, Layout of processor, showing a rectangulararray of 54 qubits (grey), each connected to its four nearest neighbours with couplers (blue). The inoperable qubit is outlined. b, Photograph of the Sycamore chip.
Caption: Demonstrating quantum supremacy. a, Verification values for patch, elided and full verification circuits are calculated from measured bitstrings and the corresponding probabilities predicted by classical simulation. The close correspondence between all four curves, despite their vast differences in complexity, justifies their use in the supremacy regime. b, For m = 20, obtaining a million samples on the quantum processor takes 200 seconds, whereas an equal-fidelity classical sampling would take 10,000 years on a million cores, and verifying the fidelity would take millions of years.
Caption: An array of Sycamore chips being prepared for preliminary electrical testing.
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