[LINK] First commercial quantum computer

[Richard Chirgwin]

On 1/06/11 3:12 PM, David Lochrin wrote:
> On Saturday 28 May 2011 16:14, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> http://www.dwavesys.com/en/products-services.html
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Adiabatic_quantum_computation
>>
>> From:
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/05/27/1931247/Lockheed-Martin-Purchases-First-Commercial-Quantum-Computer
>>
> My BS Detector has gone off - this wouldn't all be an elaborate practical joke would it?
Fifty-fifty.

The company has demonstrated a quantum behaviour - there was a Nature 
paper about it - but there's deep scientific skepticism that its PR 
matches the reality.

RC
> David
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