Meet ‘Willow’: The quantum hardware engine behind Google’s latest breakthrough

Meet ‘Willow’: The quantum hardware engine behind Google’s latest breakthrough

Yesterday, Google’s Quantum AI team announced a historic achievement: the first-ever demonstration of verifiable quantum advantage. This milestone, a critical step towards practical quantum computing, wasn’t just an algorithmic breakthrough; it was made possible by decades of investment and innovation in the underlying quantum hardware. The star of that hardware story is Google’s state-of-the-art quantum […]