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How does performance compare with an ASIC specialised at generating random numbers? Also what is the error rate?
by The_rationalist 7y ago
How does performance compare with an ASIC specialised at generating random numbers?
Also what is the error rate?
- reikonomusha 7y agoIf you “produce random numbers”, against what distribution should they be generated? Usually RNGs produce uniformly distributed random numbers. The challenge of quantum supremacy is to produce them against another kind of distribution, called the Porter -Thomas distribution. If you run your quantum computer and you get uniformly random output (akin to what toy might do if you build an ASIC), you have a broken quantum computer.
- deepnotderp 7y agoThe ASIC is really only relevant for quantum annealers like D-Wave, not for a QC like this. Even if a classical ASIC could close the gap, it would only be delaying the inevitable. Error is very high, their probability of success drops very fast, see the paper.