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It links straight to the paper in Nature pretty early on - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature10981.html http://www.nature.com/nature/jo
by ktizo 15y ago
It links straight to the paper in Nature pretty early on - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature10981.html http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7395/full/nature1...
- taligent 15y agoNow we just need something in betweeen ...
- beloch 15y agoFrom briefly skimming the abstract, it appears to be analogous to a hard-wired circuit built to execute a specific calculation. i.e. It is not a programmable quantum computer. This is similar to the sort of thing D-Wave has been doing, although likely for a different purpose. The speed-up figure is plausible, but only for the specific single algorithm this quantum circuit implements.