Google announces it has reached ‘quantum supremacy’

Dr Ciarán Gilligan-Lee and Professor Jonathan Oppenheim (both UCL Physics & Astronomy) discuss the achievement represented by Google’s claim of “quantum supremacy”, calling it an “impressive milestone”.

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