“Quantum computers can outpace our fastest classical computers in very specific areas, a groundbreaking experiment suggests.

Google Quantum AI researchers have discovered a ‘stable computationally complex phase’ that can be achieved with existing quantum processing units (QPUs), also known as quantum processors.

This means that when quantum computers enter this specific ‘weak noise phase,’ they can perform computationally complex calculations that outpace the performance of the fastest supercomputers. The research — which was led by Alexis Morvan, a quantum computing researcher at Google — was published Oct. 9 in the journal Nature…

However, the data produced by quantum computers is still noisy, meaning they still need to do fairly intensive quantum ‘error correction’ as the number of qubits rises in order for the qubits to remain in the ‘weak noise phase,’ they added.”

From Live Science.