Beyond NISQ: The Megaquop Machine

Abstract

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Funding

I gratefully acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers, Quantum Systems Accelerator, and the National Science Foundation (PHY-2317110). The Institute
for Quantum Information and Matter is an NSF Physics Frontiers Center.

Acknowledgement

This article is a lightly edited transcript of my keynote address at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley on 11 December, 2024.  This article is based on a keynote address delivered at the Q2B 2024 Conference in Silicon Valley. I thank Matt Johnson for inviting me to speak at Q2B for each of the past eight years, and Travis Humble for encouraging me to publish the talk. I also thank Dorit Aharonov, Jason Alicea, Sergio Boixo, Earl Campbell, Roland Farrell, Ashley Montanaro, Mike Newman, Will Oliver, Chris Pattison, Rob Schoelkopf, and Qian Xu for helpful comments.