Nobel Laureate John Martinis Announces Plans to Build World's Most Powerful Quantum Computer
Summary
Nobel laureate John Martinis unveils ambitious plans to construct the world's most powerful quantum computer through revolutionary technology, building on his groundbreaking discoveries in superconducting circuits that enabled IBM and Google's current quantum systems and his leadership of Google's historic quantum supremacy achievement.
Key Points
- Nobel laureate John Martinis announces plans to build the world's most powerful quantum computer through another radical rethink of quantum computing technology
- Martinis previously revolutionized quantum computing by discovering macroscopic quantum effects in superconducting circuits in the 1980s, laying the foundation for today's most powerful quantum computers used by IBM and Google
- He led Google's team that achieved the first quantum supremacy milestone, creating the only computer for nearly five years that could verify random quantum circuit outputs before being surpassed by classical computers