Since its launch in 2016, the IBM Q Experience, a cloud-based superconducting quantum processor for research and education, has been fostering the quantum computing community by attracting more than 100,000 users worldwide, producing more than 130 research papers on quantum information. I will discuss the future challenges in advancing quantum hardware and how IBM quantum processors can benchmark the noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ)-era quantum computing systems.

Hanhee Paik, Thomas J. Watson Research Center (hanhee.paik@us.ibm.com)