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Re:Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Pr... by sanxiyn on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @09:27AM (#21334383)
Indeed. It's just that 2^53 bytes (about 10 petabytes) of storage is in fact available, so you need a few more qubits to exclude that.
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Re:Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Pr... by AlanYx on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @12:01PM (#21335952)
It's not quite that efficient... IBM's arxiv paper says "64 PiB of disk space are required for 53-qubit circuits, and 128 PiB for 54-qubit circuits".

Summit has 250 PiB of total storage currently, so it would seem that a 55-qubit simulation is almost within reach by IBM's method as well.

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