[LINK] First commercial quantum computer

[Richard Chirgwin]

One of the sources I worked through writing this up for The Register is 
here:

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=639

I'm not qualified to critique the physics on either side, but the 
current "official" demonstrated lab record for quantum computers is a 
few qubits.

Let's see. The contract with Google was a pretty ill-defined development 
partnership, not a sale-of-a-box. As for Lockheed, I would imagine a 
research interest ...

RC

On 1/06/11 6:07 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> Yeah, I don't know.
>
> There was an interesting discussion in quora.  Anyone here use quora?
>
> http://www.quora.com/Is-the-D-Wave-One-a-true-quantum-computer
>
> One guy reckons it doesn't have enough knobs for a universal adiabatic quantum computer.  Bit of a worry that ;-)  The consensus (out of three or so) seems to be that if two serious companies bought it it probably does something.
>
> Hopefully it can't quite factorise large primes yet.  Because if it could and google bought one ..... doesn't bear thinking about really!
>
>
> On 2011/Jun/01, at 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?
>>
>> David
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