Dr. Jimmy Chen, Google

Abstract:

The promise of quantum computers is that certain computational tasks might be executed exponentially faster on a quantum processor than on a classical processor. The task of quantum supremacy is to demonstrate that a real quantum computer can outpace the world's most powerful classical computers, and is a key milestone towards practical quantum computing. In this talk, I will discuss the development of a programmable quantum processor named Sycamore, which consists of 53 superconducting qubits with state of the art operational fidelities. We benchmark the performance of Sycamore on randomly generated quantum circuits which are significantly more complex than any previous quantum computation, and the largest of these circuits are intractable on even the world's most powerful supercomputers, thus demonstrating quantum supremacy. We also show that the performance of the Sycamore device is well predicted by a simple model, confirming that the principles of quantum computing work at scale and paving the way for future developments.

Bio:

Jimmy Chen is a senior research scientist in Google's quantum hardware group. He completed his doctoral studies at UC Santa Barbara under the supervision of John Martinis, and his undergraduate studies at the University of Minnesota under the supervision of Dan Dahlberg. His current research focuses on calibrating and benchmarking high fidelity quantum gates and quantum measurement in superconducting qubits.