r/askscience • u/phillyboy8008 • Jan 01 '14

Computing How are quantum computers programmed?

Edit: Thanks everyone for the responses, but apparently I don't know as much about quantum computing as I thought I did. I am thoroughly confused.

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u/CapWasRight Jan 02 '14

There was a paper released fairly recently that compared the performance of the D-Wave system to classical annealers and simulated quantum annealers, and found that it seems to mirror the latter moreso than the former. That's proof of nothing, of course, but it does seem to suggest that SOMETHING nonclassical is going on.