{"id":975,"date":"2014-02-12T13:33:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/assessing-claims-quantum-annealing-does-d-wave-have-quantum-computer\/"},"modified":"2014-02-12T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T11:33:23","slug":"assessing-claims-quantum-annealing-does-d-wave-have-quantum-computer","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/seminar\/assessing-claims-quantum-annealing-does-d-wave-have-quantum-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"Assessing claims of quantum annealing: Does D-Wave have a quantum computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>There has recently been much publicity surrounding D-Wave&#8217;s<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; so-called quantum computing machines.&nbsp; Though there is little reason<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; to expect that their highly decoherent devices actually perform<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; quantum computation, they have persisted in making strong claims<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; about the performance of their system in the scientific literature<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; and to the press.&nbsp; Here we focus on showing that the evidence of<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; quantumness given in the literature is extremely weak and is<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; consistent with an effective classical description.&nbsp; We further show<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; by comparing to the performance of classical simulated<\/span><br \/><span>&nbsp; annealing that the idea that their current&nbsp; machines outperform a classical&nbsp;<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: small;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><span>computer is unfounded.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has recently been much publicity surrounding D-Wave&#8217;s&nbsp; so-called quantum computing machines.&nbsp; Though there is little reason&nbsp; to expect that their highly decoherent devices actually perform&nbsp; quantum computation, they have persisted in making strong claims&nbsp; about the performance of their system in the scientific literature&nbsp; and to the press.&nbsp; Here we focus on showing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-975","seminar","type-seminar","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/seminar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/seminar"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/giq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}