O brave new quantum world!
As many of you know, D-Wave has a nice paper out about some experiments on one of their eight qubit systems. In addition they have sold one of their systems to the military industrial complex, a.k.a. Lockheed Martin. One of the interesting things about the devices they are building is that no one really knows …
The Optimizer has gotten tired of everyone asking him about D-wave and gone and written a tirade about the subject. Like all of the optimizer’s stuff it’s a fun read. But, and of course I’m about to get tomatoes thrown on me for saying this, I have to say that I disagree with Scott’s assessment …
Hm, looks like D-wave has a new CEO. Not sure when this occurred (?), but a reader sends along an email with an announcement from a recruiting (?) firm: Lonergan Partners is pleased to announce that Vern Brownell has been named President and Chief Executive Officer of D-Wave Systems…. Vern Brownell joins D-Wave from Egenera, …
So did anyone at MIT go to this talk and care to comment: Mohammad Amin (D-Wave) Adiabatic Quantum Computation with Noisy Qubits Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) is an attractive model of quantum computation as it may naturally possess some degree of fault tolerance. Nonetheless, any practical quantum circuit is noisy and one must answer important …
Da Optimizer makes it into Nature () with comments on D-wave. See, Nature publishes CS researchers! 🙂 Scott expresses the concern most researchers in quantum computing have with the hype: “If it fizzles out,” he says, “people might say that quantum computing as a whole is just bunk.” [For a picture of real D-wave scattering, …
Hoisted from DaOptimizer’s comments, YouTube videos of d-wave’s announcement. Also, Lieven Vandersypen (who factored 15, which sounds simple, but if you think the factoring experiment done on IBM’s NMR machine was simple, then you haven’t seen their pulse sequence!) weighs in on D-wave here.
Lots of blogging and press picking up on D-wave and Orion so I thought I’d collect a few here. The offical press release is here. I’d love to hear from anyone who has attended. Scott Aaronson called me a Chinese restraraunt placemat in his The Orion Quantum Computer Anti-Hype FAQ (Update (3:17pm 2/13/07): Scott’s post …
D-Wave Systems, those crazy Vancouverites trying to build a quantum computer, have a new CEO: VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, May 9 /CNW/ – D-Wave, developer of the world’s most advanced computers, has appointed Silicon Valley technology executive and entrepreneur Herbert J. Martin as chief executive officer. Which makes me dream of the day when I will …
Quantum computers are Blue versions of classical computers [1] [2] [3][4] Blue or grey abstract patterns [1] [2][3][4][5][6] A bunch of connectors [1][2] Blurred out chips [1] What goes inside the dilution fridge [1][2][3] Closed dilution fridges [1] Part of a flag [1] A button near the enter key [1] Icy cold really big atoms …
Today’s highlight: an algorithm running in time $latex O(n^{59})$, also known as “polynomial time” or “efficient”. Joseph Fitzsimons and Thomas Vidick. A multiprover interactive proof system for the local Hamiltonian problem(Plenary Talk) abstract arXiv:1409.0260 Thomas begins by reminding everyone about what NP is and mentions that Super Mario is NP-complete. However, I solved it as …