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Quantum Echoes: Our latest quantum breakthrough

Imagine you're trying to find a lost ship at the bottom of the ocean. Sonar with signal processing done on conventional computers might give you a blurry shape and tell you "There's a ship down there." What if you could not only find the ship but also read the nameplate on its hull? That's the kind of unprecedented precision we've just achieved with our Willow quantum chip. We're announcing a major algorithmic breakthrough that marks a significant step towards a first real-world application. Just published in "Nature," we have demonstrated the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage running the out-of-order time correlator (OTOC) algorithm, which we call Quantum Echoes. Quantum Echoes can be useful in explaining the structure of systems in nature, from molecules to magnets to black holes, and we've demonstrated it runs 13,000 times faster on Willow than the best classical algorithm on one of the world's fastest supercomputers. Read on to learn more about what that means and where Quantum Echoes could be useful.

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