Google’s former quantum hardware head resurfaces in Sydney – iTnews

Google’s former head of quantum computing hardware, Professor John Martinis, has resurfaced in Sydney and is taking a role at Australian startup Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC).
Martinis left Google back in May, reportedly over discomfort at the direction that Google was taking its own quantum research and over personality clashes within his team.
Professor Martinis and his team at Google were the first to demonstrate that quantum computers can outperform classical computers, known as “quantum…

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