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The largest full quantum computer simulation done so far is 45-qubits which was performed on the Cori supercomputer [0][1]. The main limitation in these kinds
by wzeng 9y ago
The largest full quantum computer simulation done so far is 45-qubits which was performed on the Cori supercomputer [0][1]. The main limitation in these kinds of exact simulations is memory, and so simulating 50-qubits would require about a 1000x the memory of Cori, which is infeasible.
There are some other methods of approximate simulation, but that gives the cut off for full, exact simulation of a quantum computer.
[0] https://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2017-2/record-breaking-45-qubit-quantum-computing-simulation-run-at-nersc/ https://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-n...
[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01127 https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.01127