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Classical signature of quantum annealing — mentioned by jessriedel

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:11:47 GMT

> I think the paper is (perhaps a slightly different version of) this one: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.1739 in which the researchers found evidence that favours the hypothesis "the D-Wave device is doing quantum annealing" over the hypothesis "the D-Wave device is doing classical simulated annealing". > (though it's not clear to me how far they've ruled out other basically-classical processes) According to my colleagues at IBM Research, not far: > A pair of recent articles concluded that the D-Wave One machine actually operates in the quantum regime, rather than performing some classical…

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Classical signature of quantum annealing — mentioned by tehwalrus

Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:04:02 GMT

As noted in the other thread on this story[1], this claim has already been debunked by other physicists[2]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5957232 - comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5957686 [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4904

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Classical signature of quantum annealing — mentioned by lucasp0927

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 12:59:20 GMT

Here is a paper that disproves the USC paper mentioned in the story. http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4904

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