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To demonstrate quantum supremacy, we compare our quantum processor against state-of-the-art classical com- puters in the task of sampling the output of a pseudo- random quantum circuit[24{26]. Random circuits are a suitable choice for benchmarking since they do not pos- sess structure and therefore allow for limited guarantees of computational hardness[24, 25, 27, 28]. We design the circuits to entangle a set of quantum bits (qubits) by re- peated application of single-qubit and two-qubit logical operations. Sampling the quantum circuit’s output pro- duces a set of bitstrings, e.g. f0000101, 1011100, ...g. Due to quantum interference, the probability distribution of the bitstrings resembles a speckled intensity pattern produced by light interference in laser scatter, such that some bitstrings are much more likely to occur than oth- ers. Classically computing this probability distribution becomes exponentially more dicult as the number of qubits (width) and number of gate cycles (depth) grows.
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