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Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine


On December 11, I gave a keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. This is a transcript of my remarks. The slides I presented are here. NISQ and beyond I’m honored to be back at…

But as of now there is no proposed application of NISQ computing with commercial value for which quantum advantage has been demonstrated when compared to the best classical hardware running the best algorithms for solving the same problems. A fluxonium qubit is more complicated than a transmon in that it requires a large inductance which is achieved with an array of Josephson junctions, but it has the advantage of larger anharmonicity, which has enabled two-qubit gates with better than three 9s of fidelity, as the MIT team has shown. I thank Dorit Aharonov, Sergio Boixo, Earl Campbell, Roland Farrell, Ashley Montanaro, Mike Newman, Will Oliver, Chris Pattison, Rob Schoelkopf, and Qian Xu for helpful comments.

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