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Establishing the quantum supremacy frontier with a 281 Pflop/s simulation
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Villalonga, Benjamin, Dmitry Lyakh, Sergio Boixo, Hartmut Neven, Travis S. Humble, Rupak Biswas, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Alan Ho, and Salvatore Mandrà. 2020. “Establishing the Quantum Supremacy Frontier with a 281 Pflop/s Simulation.” Quantum Science and Technology 5 (3): 034003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2058-9565/ab7eeb
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.
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