Willow, Google’s latest quantum chip, creates new history in the field of quantum computing, it has the potential to redefine the future of computing. Willow’s ability to solve problems is amazing, in less than five minutes the problem is easily solved properly.
Willow’s sophistication beats the world’s fastest supercomputer Frontier which took 10 septillion years to solve the same problem. Willow’s biggest leap is an extraordinary achievement that is a stepping stone in efforts to create error-resistant quantum computers.
One of Willow’s abilities is that it can demonstrate the ability to reduce errors exponentially when the scale of the computer is increased. In other words, it can be called a phenomenon below the threshold in the industry.
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Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven argues that the chip has succeeded in halving the error rate of each additional encoded qubit, marking a historic achievement in quantum error correction. The benchmark used to assess Willow’s performance is Random Circuit Sampling (RCS).
Random Circuit Sampling (RCS) is one of the toughest challenges for quantum computers and the results show that Willow is capable of computing far beyond the reach of classical computers in general. Like solving a mathematical puzzle mystery that can be done in just a short time.
This cannot be done by classical computers because it will take longer than the age of the universe. And this discovery highlights Willow’s great potential to advice scientific discovery and revolutionize various industries.
This discovery encourages Google to develop next-generation drugs to design energy-efficient batteries whose applications can be reached more widely. In addition, Google plans to make quantum computing accessible by offering open-source tools that work with Coursera courses to enable researchers and engineers to create problem-solving algorithms in the future.
Getting to Know Willow, Google’s Latest Quantum Chip
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Willow serves as a convincing prototype for scalable quantum systems, proving that quantum chips like Willow that are large-scale and also useful are not a distant dream.
Google Quantum AI founder Hartmut Neven said that “The more qubits we use in Willow, the more errors we reduce and the more quantum the system becomes.”
Willow’s quantum chip is built in Santa Barbara, according to Google, one of the few places or facilities in the world built from scratch for this purpose. Willow contains units of information in quantum computing called Qubits, like bits in classical computing.
Neven added in a blog post that in making a chip as sophisticated as Willow, the team behind the scenes has to make sure every element is working properly. “Is there is a component that is slow or if two components are not working well together, that will degrade the performance of the system.”