Speaker: Pol Forn-Díaz
Abstract: Small-scale prototype quantum processors, despite their imperfections, are already a reality. Multiple physical platforms have reached such a state of development, allowing in some instances access to remote users to program them and run small-scale quantum algorithms. Enabling the access to such processors is a very important endeavour towards the goal of proving that quantum computation can solve real-world problems of interest. In this presentation, I will introduce the technology of superconducting qubits and I will overview the two potential quantum computing paradigms that are implemented with superconducting circuits: analog and digital quantum computing. In this context, I will introduce the first prototype superconducting quantum processor operating within the context of Quantum Spain at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.