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Re:Is D-Wave a Quantum Computer? by planck01 on Friday May 15, 2015 @03:06PM (#9552914)
As far as I know people do not doubt D-Wave's machine is a quantum computer because it is adiabatic instead of the general kind, but because there are doubts that it speeds anything up at all compared to normal computers. If it doesn't, then it might not even be an adiabatic quantum machine.
Re:Is D-Wave a Quantum Computer? by duaneb on Friday May 15, 2015 @08:11PM (#9554426)
How is it not clear which is more performant?
Re:Is D-Wave a Quantum Computer? by planck01 on Saturday May 16, 2015 @03:09AM (#9555290)
You can read more about that here: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-independent-group-d-wave-quantu...

Scientists claim is that a previous positive comparison was unfair because, "problems designed to run well on the D-Wave Systems were run without optimizing on conventional machines"