{"id":924,"date":"2007-02-15T00:41:32","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T22:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2007-02-15T00:41:32","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T22:41:32","slug":"commercial-quantum-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"commercial quantum computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img id=\"image925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2007\/02\/Blochsphere.png\" alt=\"Blochsphere.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p> A Blochsphere from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Image:Blochsphere.svg\">Wikipedia<\/a>. Mathematicians call this often <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Projective_Hilbert_space\">CP^1<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last Tuesday saw the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dwavesys.com\/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&#038;cntnt01articleid=4&#038;cntnt01origid=15&#038;cntnt01returnid=21\"> announcement<\/a> of D-Wave, which gave a demonstration on their World\u2019s First Commercial <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quantum_computer\">Quantum Computer<\/a>. There will be a second demonstration today at the Telus World of Science in Vancouver, Canada.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytar.de\/art\/isingEyes\">Ising model<\/a> in a magnetic field.<\/p>\n<p>->more on the <a href=\"http:\/\/dwave.wordpress.com\/2007\/01\/19\/quantum-computing-demo-announcement\/\">demo announcement website<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/dwave.wordpress.com\/bio\/\">Geordie Rose<\/a> the CTO of D-wave.<\/p>\n<p>-><a href=\"http:\/\/dwave.wordpress.com\/2007\/02\/08\/some-technical-papers-for-interested-folks\/\">some technical papers for interested folks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the readers convinience Scott Aaronson of Shtetl-Optimized also hands out<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scottaaronson.com\/blog\/?p=198\"> &#8220;The Orion Quantum Computer Anti-Hype FAQ&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,7,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}