Progress Toward Quantum Advantage at IBM

Speaker: Paul Nation - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Since the first publicly available quantum computer was introduced by IBM in 2016, we have seen an explosion of interest in exploring the application of quantum computing systems to real-world problems. Although still in their infancy, quantum computers have already been applied in a variety of disciplines such as quantum chemistry, machine learning, and optimization. In this talk we give a brief overview of quantum computing before detailing the current state of the art in quantum computing hardware and software. We will see how these systems are helping to train users for the time when there is a definitive advantage to running certain tasks on a quantum computer.