May/June 2008
Desultory D-Wave
D-Wave may not have made a working quantum computer.
By Scott Aaronson
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| Credit: John Hersey |
D-Wave, a startup in Burnaby, British Columbia, claims to have demonstrated a working prototype of what it says will become the world's first "commercially viable" quantum computer. But as even its supporters admit, the company has a severe credibility problem in the scientific community (see "Riding D-Wave"). In looking at its claims, I think it's helpful to ask three questions.
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