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by Klasiaster 3447 days ago
There is a debate on whether this architecture gives any advantage over classical computer architectures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Wave_Systems
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Calling it a "debate" might be giving too much credit to D-Wave. Nobody, not even they anymore, is claiming that this is a machine capable of more efficient computations than a classical Turing machine (as opposed to a quantum circuit). By "efficient computation" I mean asymptotically polynomial.

Moreover, experimenting with the actual hardware has shown that a classical computer is practically better than this machine (in terms of money, electricity, or time).