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Google claims first verifiable practical quantum application advantage over classical computers

Yossi Matias · Google Research Head Yossi Matias: AI For Cancer Research, Quantum's Progress, Researchers' Future · Oct 28, 2025 · at 4:51

Yossi Matias, Head of Google Research, discusses Google's published quantum computing milestones with Alex Kantrowitz.

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“Our this announcement of yesterday is a paper in nature that that actually shows the first verifiable practical application advantage of a quantum computer over classical computer.”

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Google's Nature paper demonstrates the first verifiable practical application advantage of a quantum computer over a classical computer.

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Assessment

The claim bundles two distinct assertions: (1) that Google's October 2025 Nature paper demonstrated a verifiable quantum advantage over classical supercomputers, and (2) that this advantage was achieved on a practical application. The first leg is true: on October 22, 2025, Google published 'Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity' in Nature, reporting a verifiable ~13,000x speedup over the Frontier supercomputer using a 65-qubit subsystem of its Willow processor to compute out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs). However, the second leg is false: the task demonstrating the quantum advantage was a synthetic/physical benchmark rather than a practical application. When Google applied this technique to an actual practical task—molecular geometry simulation via nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) data in a companion preprint—Google explicitly noted that 'this initial demonstration is not yet beyond classical.' Because verifiable advantage was demonstrated on the benchmark but not on the practical application, the statement is partially true.

Google Quantum AI published 'Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity' in Nature (Vol. 646, pp. 825–830) on October 22, 2025, demonstrating a verifiable speedup on an OTOC computational benchmark over classical supercomputers.
Google's accompanying announcement on October 22, 2025, noted that the benchmark 'paves the way' for practical applications like NMR molecular geometry learning.
In the companion study applying the method to real molecules (arXiv:2510.19550), Google explicitly stated: 'Due to the inherent complexity of simulating real-world systems and performance limits of our current chip, this initial demonstration is not yet beyond classical.'

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[1] edrm.net [2] nih.gov [3] princeton.edu [4] postquantum.com [5] aps.org [6] cloudmagazin.com [7] quantumcomputingreport.com [8] research.google

"Observation of constructive interference at the edge of quantum ergodicity" Nature Google quantum advantage Nature October 2025 Google quantum Nature paper October 2025 verifiable practical application advantage "Quantum computation of molecular geometry via many-body nuclear spin echoes" arXiv

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