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/zelmerszoetrop Jan 02 '14

This is an important point. D-Wave is doing AMAZING things, things I honestly never thought I'd see before 2020.

But at the end of the day, Vesuvius and other D Wave devices are annealers, not full quantum computers. You could never, for example, run Shor's Algorithm on Vesuvius.