Just to go off topic for one post, apologies in advance.
Here are the Chinese, landing Mars, leading the world in 5G, building a quantum computer.
What do the Americans do? They just banned Huawei again! Along with some sanctions and partial IC restrictions.
Let's take a step back.
That is how crazy it is.
We did not even mention the Chinese space station, and the quantum satellite, which has been in the sky for 5 years and the Americans still has not produced something similar. That was what was wrong with the American strategy. They should not have banned Huawei, they should have banned quantum!
The American government should have banned the Chinese economy, which is the base for all this high tech stuff. That is what President Trump should have done!
That Chinese quantum computer, that sure seems like a prototype. They will try to improve reliability some more, and maybe scale it up some more. But it is working like a computer, a quantum computer.
That probably why those two papers came back to back. One to repeat the same Google experiment, then do a new experiment. If they can do these things on demand, that should mean that thing is operational on some level.
Gasp!