Google’s analog-digital quantum simulator may enable next-gen supercomputers to make new physics discoveries/ applications
https://gizmodo.com/googles-hybrid-quantum-simulator-could-open-doors-to-new-physics-2000559215
"made up of 69 superconducting qubits,.. prepared quantum state using digital gates, enabling flexibility in initial state, then switched simulation to analog before system overcome with noise, then reverted simulation to digital, allowing more versatile study of state... discrepancy between simulations and Kibble-Zurek mechanism, it’s new physics... future: run same simulations on Google's Willow quantum computer"
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