Bounded definition
A benchmark task that samples outputs from pseudo-random quantum circuits and compares them with a defined classical simulation and verification procedure.
What the cited work establishes
The study reports random-circuit sampling on a 53-qubit superconducting processor and compares that bounded task with the classical methods and hardware considered in the paper.
The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor.
Claims: urn:maha:claim:random-circuit-sampling
What remains a separate question
A speed comparison for random-circuit sampling is not evidence of faster performance on unrelated industrial workloads.
The reported advantage is task-, circuit-, fidelity-, classical-algorithm-, and comparison-hardware-specific and does not imply general commercial advantage.
Connected domain graph
Typed dependencies preserve publication state.
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Quantum hardware benchmark scope
outbound connection · comparison
The claim depends on the exact task, fidelity metric, classical baseline, and hardware snapshot.
Quantum volume benchmark
outbound connection · measurement
Both use random circuits but define different acceptance metrics and scaling summaries.
Quantum hardware benchmark scope
inbound connection · comparison
Random-circuit sampling uses a different task and baseline contract.
Claim ledger
Every proposition keeps its own evidence state.
The cited study reports random-circuit samples from a 53-qubit superconducting processor and cross-entropy-based verification for the reported circuit family.
- Scope
- The models, apparatus, protocols, datasets, and comparisons reported in Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor.
- Boundary
- A speed comparison for random-circuit sampling is not evidence of faster performance on unrelated industrial workloads.
- Uncertainty
- No platform-independent uncertainty interval exists; numerical values remain attached to the source experiment or model and its stated assumptions.
- Replication
- This candidate records one bounded source package. Independent replications and contradictory measurements must be compiled as separate records before maturity is upgraded.
Primary sources
Citation, locator, rights, and boundary travel together.
Source 1 · Nature
Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor
Frank Arute, Kunal Arya, Ryan Babbush, Dave Bacon, et al.
- Exact locator
- Abstract; Figures 1–4; Methods; Supplementary Information; data availability.
- Establishes
- The study reports random-circuit sampling on a 53-qubit superconducting processor and compares that bounded task with the classical methods and hardware considered in the paper.
- Boundary
- The reported advantage is task-, circuit-, fidelity-, classical-algorithm-, and comparison-hardware-specific and does not imply general commercial advantage.
- Rights basis
- citation with paraphrase · Maha paraphrases the source-level result and links to the version of record; no article passage is reproduced.
- Declared interests
- Most authors were affiliated with Google and the work evaluates Google hardware.