Google confirms ‘quantum supremacy’ breakthrough

Google’s Sycamore quantum processor, which was behind the breakthrough. | Credit: Google Google has officially announced that it’s achieved quantum supremacy in a new article published in the scientific journal Nature. The announcement comes exactly one month after it initially leaked, when Google’s paper was accidentally published early. Now, however, it’s official, meaning the full details of the research are public, and the broader scientific community can fully scrut