Actually I'm becoming increasingly skeptical that D-Wave's specialized device (you can't call it a computer because it's not Turing complete) will ever have a practical advantage over a conventional computer for any problem; they took heroic measures to cool it down to 0.015 degrees Kelvin but that's not cold enough. There are now theoretical reasons to think that with D-Wave's method as the problem size increases the temperature of the device must drop at least logarithmically and probably as a power law, so you're never going to be able to get it cold enough to compete against a conventional computer. Google, IBM and most other Quantum Computer companies don't use D-Wave's method and don't have this problem.
Temperature scaling law for quantum annealing optimizers <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.03871.pdf> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3E73fOjabhaQa72dkFYN1i43K0%2Ba5FnPL4thctO2bG%2Bg%40mail.gmail.com.
