Difference between revisions of "Timeline of Quantum Computing"
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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 | ||
| + | | title=Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate | ||
| + | | journal=Physical Review Letters | ||
| + | | volume=75 | ||
| + | | issue=25 | ||
| + | | pages=4714–4717 | ||
| + | | date=December 18, 1995 | ||
| + | | url=http://tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/140.pdf | ||
| + | | accessdate=December 29, 2007 | ||
| + | | doi=10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.4714 | ||
| + | | pmid=10059979 | ||
| + | | bibcode=1995PhRvL..75.4714M| last1=Monroe | ||
| + | | first1=C | ||
| + | | last2=Meekhof | ||
| + | | first2=D. M | ||
| + | | last3=King | ||
| + | | first3=B. E | ||
| + | | last4=Itano | ||
| + | | first4=W. M | ||
| + | | last5=Wineland | ||
| + | | first5=D. J | ||
| + | }}</ref> | ||
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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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| 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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== Meta information on the timeline == | == Meta information on the timeline == | ||
Revision as of 01:04, 22 February 2020
Big picture
| Time period | Development summary |
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| 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] |
| 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] |
Meta information on the timeline
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Merge with: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_quantum_computing- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Why I Coined the Term 'Quantum Supremacy'". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
