Ph.D. students from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology made some noise in the science community when they successfully simulated a 45-qubit quantum circuit–the largest ever simulation of a quantum computer to date.
The two students, Thomas Häner and Damien Steiger performed the computations at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC). This DOE Office of Science User Facility exists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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