Friday, February 9, 2007

D-Wave: commercial quantum computer

Next week, D-Wave Systems, Inc. is going to show its 16-qubit commercial adiabatic quantum computer (AQC) in two Canadian cities: article.

The computer can only do some special operations - you may call it a quantum calculator - and be sure that you won't be able to run Shor's algorithm or other important quantum algorithms with it.