Chinese Quantum Computer Shatters World Record

hackingbear writes: The latest version of China’s 255-qubit quantum computer Jiuzhang 3, named after an ancient Chinese mathematics book, has broken the world record for quantum computing in a scientific test, further cementing the country’s status as a global leader in the field of photonics quantum computing. The Jiuzhang 3 prototype achieved a speed that is 1 million times faster at solving Gaussian Boson Sampling problems compared with its predecessor and about 10,000 trillion times faster than US-developed Frontier supercomputer, according to an article published in Physical Review Letters yesterday. The article notes that Frontier, which is currently the fastest conventional computer in the world, would need about 600 years to generate a single ideal sample in the problem of Gaussian Boson Sampling, while Jiuzhang 3, developed by University of Science and Technology of China, can do it in just 1.27 microseconds.