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Fast classical simulation of evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance

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arxiv 2306.16372 v1 pith:V2KED4FS submitted 2023-06-28 quant-ph

Fast classical simulation of evidence for the utility of quantum computing before fault tolerance

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We show that a classical algorithm based on sparse Pauli dynamics can efficiently simulate quantum circuits studied in a recent experiment on 127 qubits of IBM's Eagle processor [Nature 618, 500 (2023)]. Our classical simulations on a single core of a laptop are orders of magnitude faster than the reported walltime of the quantum simulations, as well as faster than the estimated quantum hardware runtime without classical processing, and are in good agreement with the zero-noise extrapolated experimental results.

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