Non-Randomness of Google's Quantum Supremacy Benchmark

ORAL

Abstract

The first achievement of quantum supremacy has been claimed recently by Google for the random quantum circuit benchmark with 53 superconducting qubits. Here, we analyze the randomness of Google's quantum random-bit sampling. The heat maps of Google's random bit-strings show stripe patterns at specific qubits in contrast to the Haar-measure or classical random-bit strings. Google's data contains more bit 0 than bit 1, i.e., about 2.8 % difference, and fail to pass the NIST random number tests, while the Haar-measure or classical random-bit samples pass. Their difference is also illustrated by the Marchenko-Pastur distribution and the Girko circular law of random matrices of random bit-strings. The calculation of the Wasserstein distances shows that Google's random bit-strings are farther away from the Haar-measure random bit-strings than the classical random bit-strings. Our results imply that random matrices and the Wasserstein distance could be new tools for analyzing the performance of quantum computers.

*This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, National Quantum Information Science Research Centers. We also acknowledge the National Science Foundation under award number 1955907.

Publication: S. Oh and S. Kais, arXiv:2110.06046

Presenters

  • Sangchul Oh

    • Purdue University

Authors

  • Sangchul Oh

    • Purdue University
  • Sabre Kais

    • Purdue University