On 2/4/07, James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ... > Sixteen qbit adiabetic quantum computer is roughly (very > roughly) equivalent to eight qbit gate based quantum > computer. Largest previous quantum computer was seven > qbit, so this news is less exciting than it sounds. > > Quantum computers will get interesting when they have > about a hundred qbits.
about a year from now then. :) this is the beauty of the adiabatic model they are using: it scales easily. the prototype was initially going to be 128 qubits and moving from 16 to thousands is expected within a few years... contrast this with gate model QC where difficulty increases in geometric fashion. _______________________________________________ FDE mailing list [email protected] http://www.xml-dev.com/mailman/listinfo/fde
