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Fresh 'quantum advantage' claim made by computing firm D-Wave: the company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than it would be done with classical computers.


The company says it has solved the first problem of scientific relevance with a quantum processor faster than it would be done with classical computers.

A ‘quantum processor’ has solved a physics problem on the behaviour of magnetism in certain solids that would take hundreds of thousands of years to calculate on the largest conventional supercomputers. But in general materials, neighbouring spins give conflicting influences on each other, and stable arrangements either don’t exist or are extremely difficult to predict. Access the most recent journalism from Nature's award-winning team Explore the latest features & opinion covering groundbreaking research

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