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D-Wave Large-Scale Quantum Chip Validated, Says USC Team

Posted by timothy on from the or-they-don't dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of scientists says it has verified that quantum effects are indeed at work in the D-Wave processor, the first commercial quantum optimization computer processor. The team demonstrated that the D-Wave processor behaves in a manner that indicates that quantum mechanics has a functional role in the way it works. The demonstration involved a small subset of the chip's 128 qubits, but in other words, the device appears to be operating as a quantum processor."

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  1. Great Scott! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great... now the NSA can record everything we do *and* everything we don't do in all possible parallel universes... Welp, the analog world was nice while it lasted I guess.

    -- stoops

  2. What about maintenance? by jennatalia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we going to need quantum mechanics to work on these chips and computers?

  3. Re:The question is by BradleyUffner · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just went googling for my old posts about how to do integer factorization with D-Wave. Guess what? GONE!

    That's what you get for observing them.