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Google's new quantum chip, Willow, has achieved a significant milestone by exponentially reducing errors while scaling with more qubits, tackling a key challenge in quantum error correction. This breakthrough allows the system to maintain its quantum state and achieve more accurate computations. The Willow chip also completed a benchmark calculation in under five minutes, a feat that would take today’s fastest supercomputers an estimated 10 septillion years, vastly exceeding the age of the universe, showcasing a remarkable leap in processing speed. This advancement moves quantum computing closer to practical and commercially relevant applications.

Willow is a 105 qubit superconducting chip that has demonstrated a new level of error correction. The chip incorporates a fault-tolerant architecture and uses surface codes and improved qubit connectivity to mitigate noise and enhance coherence times. With this milestone, Google has also demonstrated that the more qubits it uses in Willow, the more they reduce errors. This achievement, known as being "below threshold", is a major milestone in quantum error correction that the field has pursued for almost 30 years, opening up the prospect of real time error correction on superconducting quantum systems.

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Classification:

• HashTags: QuantumComputing MultipleUniverses TheoreticalPhysics
• Company: Google
• Target: Universe
• Product: Quantum
• Feature: Quantum
• Type: Research
• Severity: Major