Record Quantum Computation at D-Wave: Millions of Years Down To Seconds

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The quantum computing company D-Wave has reported that they’ve managed to complete a calculation that would have taken a conventional computer millions of years in fractions of a second. How did they achieve this impressive feat? What’s behind the scepticism over D-Wave’s machine? Let’s find out.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00910

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