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World-first: US quantum computer solves problem million years faster than supercomputer


The race among quantum computers is full of higher number of qubits and error correction rates. But what problems that need solving now?

While there has been a lot of buzz around this field, with companies claiming to build computers with more qubits – the information storage units, real-world deployment of this technology has been missing. Researchers at D-Wave performed simulations of programmable spin glasses – a magnetic materials problem known to be computationally hard, as per a press release. “Our achievement shows, without question, that D-Wave’s annealing quantum computers are now capable of solving useful problems beyond the reach of the world’s most powerful supercomputers,” Baratz added.

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