{"id":1225,"date":"2021-02-17T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/beyond-classical-quantum-computing\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:25:44","slug":"beyond-classical-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/beyond-classical-quantum-computing\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond-classical quantum computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll review what is the current state of quantum computing with&nbsp;superconducting qubits.\u200b \u200bI\u2019ll explain several experiments from&nbsp;Google\u2019s&nbsp;Quantum AI group, including an article published in&nbsp;Nature in 2019&nbsp;in which we carried out a computational task on&nbsp;an experimental quantum&nbsp;processor vastly outperforming current&nbsp;supercomputers. I will conclude&nbsp;with various projections on the&nbsp;expected advances in quantum computing&nbsp;in the next ten years.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u200bSpeaker bio: Sergio Boixo leads the Quantum Computer Science group at Google&nbsp;Quantum&nbsp;AI. He was previously a research professor and quantum&nbsp;engineer at USC,&nbsp;and a postdoc at Harvard and Caltech. Sergio has&nbsp;a doctorate in physics&nbsp;from UNM, a master&#8217;s degree in physics from&nbsp;UAB, is a computer engineer&nbsp;from UCM, and studied mathematics and&nbsp;philosophy at UNED. In a past&nbsp;life, Sergio worked as a computer&nbsp;engineer at the European Central Bank&nbsp;and other companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll review what is the current state of quantum computing with&nbsp;superconducting qubits.\u200b \u200bI\u2019ll explain several experiments from&nbsp;Google\u2019s&nbsp;Quantum AI group, including an article published in&nbsp;Nature in 2019&nbsp;in which we carried out a computational task on&nbsp;an experimental quantum&nbsp;processor vastly outperforming current&nbsp;supercomputers. I will conclude&nbsp;with various projections on the&nbsp;expected advances in quantum computing&nbsp;in the next ten years. \u200bSpeaker [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1225","seminar","type-seminar","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar\/1225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/seminar"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}