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I don't believe they've proven class A. Just because you have a device that computes something and that devices has entanglement does not mean you've exploits
by jessriedel 9y ago
I don't believe they've proven class A. Just because you have a device that computes something and that devices has entanglement does not mean you've exploits the entanglement to compute anything in any useful sense. An extreme example: you can prepare a superposition and measure it to generate a random classical bit (0 or 1), and you can use that as a source of entropy for a classical probabilistic algorithm, but it would be ridiculous to call this a "quantum computer" of any class.
In fact, multiple experimental groups did essentially this, which some theorists at IBM (former colleagues of mine) called them out for:
https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7457/full/nature12290.html https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7457/full/nature...
Although this case was egregious, more subtle shenanigans are rampant in the field.