Super Cooled Super Conducting Super Quantum Computer
February 15, 2007
In a comment to my Optical Molasses post Tom Slee said:
Very cool indeed. But as to quantum computing, I’m terminally sceptical. See here.
On Tuesday, completely unaware of Tom’s skepticism :-), D-Wave systems demonstrated their Orion quantum computer. A description of this 16 qubit system comes from D-Wave founder Geordie Rose in his Blog post about the demo:
The Orion system is a hardware accelerator designed to solve a particular NP-complete problem called the two dimensional Ising model in a magnetic field. It is built around a 16-qubit superconducting adiabatic quantum computer processor. The system is designed to be used in concert with a conventional front end for any application that requires the solution of an NP-complete problem.
Very cool (literally)!!!
