Google Announces Breakthrough In Quantum Computing
Google said on Wednesday that its research team has achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing, claiming it attained "quantum supremacy," a milestone on the path to full-scale quantum computing.
谷歌周三表示，他们的研究团队在量子计算领域取得了重大突破，成功演示了“量子霸权”，这是人类在全面量子计算道路上的一个里程碑。
Google announced the results in the journal Nature, saying the achievement came after more than a decade of work at Google, including the use of its internally developed 53-qubit quantum computer -- Sycamore.
谷歌在《自然》杂志上公布了这一结果，称这一成就凝聚了谷歌十多年的心血，研究团队研制了一个由53个量子比特组成的量子处理器“西克莫”。
"Our Sycamore processor takes about 200 seconds to sample one instance of a quantum circuit a million times -- our benchmarks currently indicate that the equivalent task for a state-of-the-art classical supercomputer would take approximately 10,000 years," Nature quoted the Google researchers as saying in its report.
《自然》杂志在其报告中援引谷歌研究人员的话说:“我们的量子处理器西克莫在200秒的时间内从量子电路中采集了100万个样本——我们目前的基准测试表明，一台尖端的超级计算机要约1万年才能完成这项任务。”
"Very proud that our GoogleAI team has achieved a big breakthrough in quantum computing known as quantum supremacy after over a decade of work...
“我非常自豪，我们的团队在量子计算领域取得了重大突破，演示了量子霸权，这是在10多年的研究之后取得的。
Thank you to our collaborators in the research community who helped make this possible," Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai tweeted Wednesday morning.
感谢我们的合作者，他们帮助我们实现了这一目标，“谷歌首席执行官桑达尔.皮查伊周三在推特上写道。
The result offered evidence that quantum computers could break out of research labs and head toward mainstream computing, Pichai argued.
皮查伊认为，这一结果证明量子计算机可以突破实验室的理论研究，走向主流计算领域。
A number of companies including Google, Intel, Microsoft, Honeywell, Rigetti Computing and IBM are researching general-purpose quantum computers.
包括谷歌、英特尔、微软、霍尼韦尔、Rigetti 和IBM在内的许多公司都在研究通用量子计算机。
