[FDE] pictures of the core of the first quantum computer

[coderman]

On 2/4/07, James A. Donald <jamesd at echeque.com> wrote:
> ...
> Sixteen qbit adiabetic quantum computer is roughly (very
> roughly) equivalent to eight qbit gate based quantum
> computer. Largest previous quantum computer was seven
> qbit, so this news is less exciting than it sounds.
>
> Quantum computers will get interesting when they have
> about a hundred qbits.

about a year from now then. :)

this is the beauty of the adiabatic model they are using: it scales
easily.  the prototype was initially going to be 128 qubits and moving
from 16 to thousands is expected within a few years...

contrast this with gate model QC where difficulty increases in
geometric fashion.