ETtech Explainer: How Google’s Quantum breakthrough can make a difference in the real world

Tech giant Google has revealed that its Willow quantum processor has achieved the world’s first verifiable quantum advantage. The breakthrough was detailed in the journal Nature on October 22.

Michel H Devoret and his team at Google’s lab in Santa Barbara, California, demonstrated that their quantum computer successfully ran a new algorithm called Quantum Echoes. This technology could speed up progress in drug development, advanced materials, and other scientific areas.

Devoret, one of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in physics, contributed to…