Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed a method that could pave the way to establishing universal standards for measuring the performance of quantum computers.
The
new
method,
called
cycle
benchmarking,
allows
researchers
to
assess
the
potential
of
scalability
and
to
compare
one
quantum
platform
against
another.
“This
finding
could
go
a
long
way
toward
establishing
standards
for
performance
and
strengthen
the
effort
to
build
a
large-scale,
practical
quantum
computer,”
said
Joel
Wallman,
an
assistant
professor
at
Waterloo’s
Faculty
of
Mathematics
and
Institute
for
Quantum
Computing.
“A
consistent
method
for
characterizing
and
correcting
the
errors
in
quantum
systems
provides
standardization
for
the
way
a
quantum
processor
is
assessed,
allowing
progress
in
different
architectures
to
be
fairly
compared."
Read
the
full
press
release.