commercial quantum computers
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
A Blochsphere from Wikipedia. Mathematicians call this often CP^1.
Last Tuesday saw the announcement of D-Wave, which gave a demonstration on their World’s First Commercial Quantum Computer. There will be a second demonstration today at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada.
The first application of their Orion quantum computing system demo is a pattern matching application applied to searching databases of molecules. The second is a third-party planning/scheduling application for assigning people to seats subject to constraints. However it is designed to solve the two dimensional Ising model in a magnetic field.
->more on the demo announcement website by Geordie Rose the CTO of D-wave.
->some technical papers for interested folks
For the readers convinience Scott Aaronson of Shtetl-Optimized also hands out
“The Orion Quantum Computer Anti-Hype FAQ”.