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Crucial question - is the calibration a one time effort where the same calibration can be used to calculate any number of results within the calibrated space? I
by zaroth 7y ago
Crucial question - is the calibration a one time effort where the same calibration can be used to calculate any number of results within the calibrated space? In other words, can you amortize the calibration cost across 1,000 runs and come out an order of magnitude ahead?
- andrewla 7y agoSee the comments on Kalai's post from Peter Shor, where Kalai attempts to address this, and my reply to mantap on this thread where I try to give my poor understanding of the critique.
- raverbashing 7y agoI'll just say the line between being unfairly critical and raising valid points seem to be a very thin one. Especially when Peter Shore is disagreeing with the critique (and I agree with him). Saying that a quantum computation does not qualify because it included (a short) classic computation does not seem a fundamentally fair criticism to me.
- readams 7y ago"John Martinis explicitly confirmed for me that once the qubits are calibrated, you can run any circuit on them that you want." https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=4372
- andrewla 7y agoJust saw this! As Aaronson mentions, coupled with the IBM work, if it does work out, it should be possible to verify that the 53-bit samples are actually valid through the cross entropy test, which would be very exciting.