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| 1960 || Stephen Wiesner invents conjugate coding.
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| 1995 || Christopher Monroe and David Wineland at NIST (Boulder, Colorado) experimentally realize the first quantum logic gate – the controlled-NOT gate – with trapped ions, following the Cirac-Zoller proposal. <ref>{{Cite journal
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| title=Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate
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| journal=Physical Review Letters
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| volume=75
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| date=December 18, 1995
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| doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4714
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| 2012 || John Preskill coins the term "quantum supremacy" to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t.<ref name="quantum supremacy">{{Cite news|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/|title=Why I Coined the Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’|work=Wired|access-date=2020-02-22|language=en|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>
 
| 2012 || John Preskill coins the term "quantum supremacy" to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t.<ref name="quantum supremacy">{{Cite news|url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-preskill-explains-quantum-supremacy-20191002/|title=Why I Coined the Term ‘Quantum Supremacy’|work=Wired|access-date=2020-02-22|language=en|issn=1059-1028}}</ref>
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| 2017-03-04 || Quantum volume is proposed as a measure of the power of quantum computers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=|first=|url=https://storageconsortium.de/content/sites/default/files/quantum-volumehp08co1vbo0cc8fr.pdf|title=Quantum Volume|date=2017-03-04|work=|access-date=2020-02-22|url-status=live}}</ref>
 
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| 2019-08 || Google uses a device with 53 qubits to solve a carefully chosen problem in 3 minutes 20 seconds, which took 2.5 days to solve with a classical computer.<ref name="quantum supremacy"/>
 
| 2019-08 || Google uses a device with 53 qubits to solve a carefully chosen problem in 3 minutes 20 seconds, which took 2.5 days to solve with a classical computer.<ref name="quantum supremacy"/>
 
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== Full timeline ==
  
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See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing
  
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== References ==
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Merge with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing
 

Latest revision as of 01:43, 22 February 2020

Big picture

Time period Development summary
1960 Stephen Wiesner invents conjugate coding.
1995 Christopher Monroe and David Wineland at NIST (Boulder, Colorado) experimentally realize the first quantum logic gate – the controlled-NOT gate – with trapped ions, following the Cirac-Zoller proposal. [1]
2012 John Preskill coins the term "quantum supremacy" to describe the point where quantum computers can do things that classical computers can’t.[2]
2017-03-04 Quantum volume is proposed as a measure of the power of quantum computers.[3]
2019-08 Google uses a device with 53 qubits to solve a carefully chosen problem in 3 minutes 20 seconds, which took 2.5 days to solve with a classical computer.[2]

Full timeline

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing

References

  1. Monroe, C; Meekhof, D. M; King, B. E; Itano, W. M; Wineland, D. J (December 18, 1995). "Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate" (PDF). Physical Review Letters. 75 (25): 4714–4717. Bibcode:1995PhRvL..75.4714M. PMID 10059979. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4714. Retrieved December 29, 2007. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Why I Coined the Term 'Quantum Supremacy'". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-02-22. 
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