In October 2019, Nature published a paper describing an experiment that took place at Google. The paper claims to demonstrate quantum (computational) supremacy on a 53-qubit quantum computer. Since September 2019 we have been involved in a long-term project to study various statistical aspects of the Google experiment. We have been trying to gather the relevant data and information in order to reconstruct and verify those parts of the Google experiment that are based on classical computations (except when the required computation is too heavy), and to perform a statistical analysis on the data. This document describes the available data and information for the Google experiment, some main questions in the evaluation of the experiment, and some of our results and plans.
翻译:2019年10月,大自然组织发表了一篇论文,描述了在谷歌进行的实验。论文声称展示了53平方位量子计算机的量(计算)至高无上。自2019年9月以来,我们参与了一个长期项目,研究谷歌实验的各种统计方面。我们一直在努力收集相关的数据和信息,以便重建和核查谷歌实验中那些基于古典计算(除非所要求的计算过于沉重)的部分,并对数据进行统计分析。这份文件描述了谷歌实验的现有数据和信息、评估实验的一些主要问题以及我们的一些结果和计划。