An amazing video about the UC Santa Barbara Physics Department by MAT student James Darling documenting the quantum computing research done by Erik Lucero, who was a Ph.D student at UCSB at the time of this study. For more on this research, go here: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.asp...

Erik Lucero is currently part of John Martinis' group with UC Santa Barbara & Google. The group recently announced quantum supremacy with their Sycamore computer. Using 53 entangled quantum bits (“qubits”), the Sycamore computer has taken on — and solved — a problem considered intractable for classical computers.