Scott Aaronson Comments on the Boson Sampling Quantum Supremacy Paper from China

Scott Aaronson originated the proposal of Boson Sampling as an area where quantum computers should be better than regular computers. He discusses the new claim from China of Quantum Supremacy where quantum computing systems are 10 trillion times faster than regular supercomputers on a particular problem. A group led by Jianwei Pan and Chao-Yang Lu said they achieved BosonSampling with 40-70 detected photons—up. This is beyond the limit where a classical supercomputer could feasibly verify the results. They achieved a variant called Gaussian BosonSampling. this is a generalization of what Scott called Scattershot BosonSampling in a 2013 post on his

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