In recent decades, our ability to understand and manipulate the quantum phenomena is leading to the development of a variety of technologies, such as quantum communication systems and quantum computers, that promise to bring significant economic and societal benefits, along with major security implications.

A century of research into the strange phenomena of the quantum world has given us technologies that are central to modern society: lasers, magnetic resonance imaging, atomic clocks (and thus, GPS), semiconductor electronics (and thus, computers)

An increasing ability to control and manipulate quantum systems is fomenting what physicists Jonathan Dowling and Gerard Milburn termed, in a paper in 2003, the "2nd Quantum Revolution"
Starting by Yuri Ivanovich Manin's "Calculated and non-calculated" (1980) to Google's quantum supremacy
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Rigetti Computing,announced it is launching the world's first multi-chip quantum processor. Rigetti expects to make an 80-qubit system powered by the multi-chip technology available on its Quantum Cloud Services platform later this year.

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Zuchongzhi 1 hour is about 8 years of a most powerful supercomputer
Scaling up to a large number of qubits with high-precision control is essential in the demonstrations of quantum computational advantage to exponentially outpace the classical hardware and algorithmic improvements. The two-dimensional programmable superconducting quantum processor, Zuchongzhi, which is composed of 66 functional qubits in a tunable coupling architecture is developed. To characterize the performance of the whole system, the random quantum circuits sampling for benchmarking is performed up to a system size of 56 qubits and 20 cycles.