Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Professor Arik stared at the journal in his hands, his face full of disappointment.
At last, he could no longer hold back and cursed angrily.
"This is utter nonsense!"
"A 524-qubit quantum computer... how could that possibly be achieved?"
As a professor of physics and quantum information engineering at the University of Southern California, a specially appointed researcher on Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's quantum computer project, and an adviser to Google's "D-Wave" project, he had countless accolades to his name. No one understood quantum computers better than he did.
He had even participated in researching and developing the famous quantum annealing algorithm.
Although academics disputed whether quantum annealing systems could be called quantum computers-after all, no one had yet found evidence of the supposed "quantum speedup"-there was no denying that D-Wave 2X still held the record for the highest qubit count.
Google and NASA were currently working on D-Wave 3X. Operating at ultralow temperatures, this computer would redefine the world's understanding of quantum computing technology.
Even so, their target for D-Wave 3X was only 100 qubits.
Yet now, someone actually claimed to have developed a 524-qubit quantum computer and had published the paper in a world-class journal like Future.
Not only did he feel that his intelligence had been insulted, but the irresponsibility of the article also made him exceptionally angry.
Every fraudulent paper eroded the industry's confidence in new technology. Such irresponsible research would ruin not only the scholars behind it, but the entire industry.
Besides, this was not the first time!
The last time, it seemed to have been the Hua Academy of Sciences. Over the past few months, reports of breakthroughs in quantum computing had kept coming from across the Pacific Ocean.
Watching Professor Arik fume, his collaborator, Dr. Cecil, who was also