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.