Saad Ullah
● Google Quantum AI just announced something big. They've achieved the first-ever verifiable quantum advantage using their Quantum Echoes algorithm on the Willow quantum chip. This isn't just another lab experiment — it's quantum computing actually beating the best classical systems at real-world tasks.
● Google Research explained that Quantum Echoes measures something called out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) — basically a quantum property so complex that classical computers can't simulate it at scale. Running on Willow, the algorithm crushed the task 13,000 times faster than the best supercomputers. More importantly, the results were verifiable and reproducible on independent quantum systems, which is critical for proving real quantum advantage.
● Working with UC Berkeley, the team (as AshutoshShrivastava highlighted) successfully modeled molecular systems with 15 and 28 atoms at accuracy levels beyond what traditional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) can achieve. This breakthrough matters for drug discovery, materials science, and chemistry — enabling simulations of molecular interactions that were previously impossible.
● This achievement hits Milestone 3 in Google's Quantum Roadmap: building a long-lived logical qubit, which is essential for scalable, error-corrected quantum computing. Quantum Echoes shows that high-performance quantum algorithms can actually move from research labs into real industrial and scientific use.
Saad Ullah
