In the fall of last year, you may have seen a few articles floating around the internet announcing Google has achieved quantum supremacy. Though the term quantum supremacy sounds like the title you receive after going on a ten-person killstreak during a sci-fi multi-player campaign, the idea of Google reaching quantum supremacy is, and was, a massive development in the world of quantum computing.
For the uninitiated, quantum supremacy is a term used in the world of quantum computing describing the moment when a programmable quantum device can solve a problem that no classical computer can feasibly solve.
In Google's case, and described in great detail in their published paper, the search giant announced that its 54-qubit Sycamore processor was able to perform a calculation in 200 seconds that would have taken the world's most powerful supercomputer over 10,000 years to solve. Now, Google's quantum supremacy moment was met with some scrutiny and challenges from competitors like IBM. Yet, the overall research community welcomed the historic moment for the realm of quantum computing. Nevertheless, you are probably wondering why there is so much hype surrounding quantum computing, and if it will directly impact your life.
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