NYTimes profiles Robert Schoelkopf and Quantum Circuits, as well as quantum research being conducted at Google, Microsoft, and IBM. The technology is edging closer to reality as both large tech companies and startups race to build the first commercial quantum computer.
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Yale Professors Race Google and IBM to the First Quantum Computer
One of Mr. Schoelkopf’s former students now leads the quantum computing program at IBM. The founder of Rigetti Computing studied with Michel Devoret, one of the other Yale professors behind Quantum Circuits. In recent months, after grabbing a team of top researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Google indicated it is on the verge of using this method to build a machine that can achieve “quantum supremacy” — when a quantum machine performs a task that would be impossible on your laptop or any other machine that obeys the laws of classical physics. There are other areas of research that show promise. Microsoft, for example, is betting on particles known as anyons. But superconducting circuits appear likely to be the first systems that will bear real fruit.
