Google’s Analog-Digital Hybrid Quantum ... for various types of quantum simulation,” Andersen says. Andersen notes this discovery could have been made with a classical computer.

The analog computer of decades-gone-by is something ... their focus is on chips for hybrid analog-digital computing, with a focus on energy-efficient approximate methods. With that in mind ...

By combining digital and analog quantum simulation into a new hybrid approach, scientists have already started to make fresh scientific discoveries using quantum computers.