How the quantum realm will go beyond computing

Over the last half-decade, quantum computing has attracted tremendous media attention. Why? After all, we have computers already, which have been around since the 1940s. Is the interest because of the use cases? Better AI? Faster and more accurate pricing for financial services firms and hedge funds?

SupercheQ, Quantum Advantage for Distributed Databases

The emergence of commercial quantum hardware has been accompanied by new approaches to benchmarking quantum computers. In addition to application-centric benchmarking approaches such as Infleqtion’s SupermarQ suite, scientists have developed benchmarks based on sampling from random quantum circuits.