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Abstract: System testing of a quantum computer

Speaker: John Martinis

In order to specify a quantum computer technology, it is important to describe not just the qubit type and architecture, but qubit errors.  This is because qubits are fundamentally error-prone, and computational power can only occur if the errors are small enough, roughly 2%.  I will describe how the quantum supremacy experiment from Google was able to measure system error rates, and that these errors can be described in a simple probabilistic manner.