Review Article

Quantum computation, quantum supremacy and noisy intermidiate-scale quantum era#br#

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  • Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

Received date: 2020-07-19

  Online published: 2020-08-22

Abstract

Using popular but accurate descriptions, I briefly introduce the concepts concerning quantum computation, including qubits,
quantum state, basis state, quantum measurement, unitary transformation, noncloning of quantum information, quantum computing,
quantum gate, quantum algorithm, decoherence or quantum noise, quantum error correction, noisy intermidiate-scale quantum (NISQ)
technology and quantum advantage or quantum supremacy. NISQ era and the prospect of quantum supremacy are commented.

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SHI Yu . Quantum computation, quantum supremacy and noisy intermidiate-scale quantum era#br#[J]. Chinese Journal of Nature, 2020 , 42(4) : 295 -300 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-9608.2020.04.003

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