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This tech giant achieved "quantum supremacy" in 2019, claiming their quantum computer solved a problem in minutes that would take classical computers thousands of years.
Difficulty: Easy- IBM
- Microsoft
- Intel
This quantum algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems alternates between a cost Hamiltonian and a mixer Hamiltonian.
Difficulty: Medium- VQE
- QAOA
- Grover's algorithm
- Quantum walks
This sampling problem with photons in linear optical networks was proven computationally hard before random circuit sampling was proposed.
Difficulty: Hard- Gaussian boson sampling
- Fermion sampling
- Boson sampling
- IQP sampling
This physicist introduced a thought experiment involving a cat in a box to illustrate the strange implications of quantum superposition.
Difficulty: Easy- Albert Einstein
- Werner Heisenberg
- Niels Bohr
- Erwin Schrödinger
This quantum error correction code, developed at Caltech, can correct any single-qubit error using only 5 physical qubits.
Difficulty: Medium- Steane code
- Shor code
- Perfect code (5-qubit code)
- Surface code
This operator formalism describes noisy quantum channels using a set of operators that map density matrices while preserving trace and positivity.
Difficulty: Hard- Hamiltonian formalism
- Stinespring dilation
- Choi representation
- Kraus representation
This company's quantum computing platform is called Qiskit, and they have made quantum computers accessible via the cloud.
Difficulty: Easy- IBM
- Amazon
- Apple
This popular error correction code arranges qubits on a 2D grid and is considered the most practical path to fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Difficulty: Medium- Steane code
- Shor code
- Color code
- Surface code
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