Establishing the Quantum Supremacy Frontier with a 281 Pflop/s Simulation
| Autor: | Hartmut Neven, Benjamin Villalonga, Sergio Boixo, Rupak Biswas, Alan Ho, Dmitry I. Lyakh, Salvatore Mandrà, Eleanor Rieffel, Travis S. Humble |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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FOS: Computer and information sciences
Quantum Physics Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) Computer science Materials Science (miscellaneous) FOS: Physical sciences Quantum simulator Energy consumption Computational Complexity (cs.CC) Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph) Supercomputer Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics Single-precision floating-point format Orders of magnitude (bit rate) Computer Science - Computational Complexity Computer engineering Benchmark (computing) Electrical and Electronic Engineering Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Quantum Physics - Computational Physics Quantum computer |
| Popis: | Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers are entering an era in which they can perform computational tasks beyond the capabilities of the most powerful classical computers, thereby achieving "Quantum Supremacy", a major milestone in quantum computing. NISQ Supremacy requires comparison with a state-of-the-art classical simulator. We report HPC simulations of hard random quantum circuits (RQC), which have been recently used as a benchmark for the first experimental demonstration of Quantum Supremacy, sustaining an average performance of 281 Pflop/s (true single precision) on Summit, currently the fastest supercomputer in the World. These simulations were carried out using qFlex, a tensor-network-based classical high-performance simulator of RQCs. Our results show an advantage of many orders of magnitude in energy consumption of NISQ devices over classical supercomputers. In addition, we propose a standard benchmark for NISQ computers based on qFlex. The paper has been published in Quantum Science and Technology |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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