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by _Nat_ 2733 days ago
I kinda doubt anyone's going to really criticize this one.

I mean, the controversy about D-Wave (if I recall correctly) was largely related to claims about it having achieved [quantum advantage over classical computing methods](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_supremacy), along with misunderstandings about what kind of "quantum computer" it is.

However, it's generally accepted that D-Wave is a working computer that uses quantum models; that fact's uncontroversial.

In this paper, they reported using that uncontroversial ability to perform optimization problems to optimize some physics problems. And it worked basically as-expected.