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WIRA Rainier 0-silicon pic
Here is a picture taken at WIRA of a 0-silicon Rainier wafer. The left-most chiplet in the middle is an 8-qubit unit cell break-out. The chiplet to the right of this is a 2×2 array of unit cells (32...
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Rainier chips are cooling down
Three Rainier 1st silicon chips are on their way to 10mK. On two of them we are doing device-level testing, the third has a full 8-qubit unit cell with all the programmable control circuitry bells and...
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Short article on D-Wave in New Scientist
A short piece on our current tests on the Rainier chips appeared today in New Scientist. Here it is.
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Multi-qubit synchronization results
Synchronization of Multiple Coupled rf-SQUID Flux Qubits A practical strategy for synchronizing the properties of compound Josephson junction rf-SQUID qubits on a multiqubit chip has been demonstrated....
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Implementation of a Quantum Annealing Algorithm Using a Superconducting Circuit
Implementation of a Quantum Annealing Algorithm Using a Superconducting Circuit A circuit consisting of a network of coupled compound Josephson junction rf-SQUID flux qubits has been used to implement...
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Cool talk on quantum computing and artificial intelligence
This is super excellent. Very nice introduction to quantum computation and superconducting electronics.
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Google Tech Talks on D-Wave and Quantum Annealing
Here are two videos about D-Wave and quantum annealing. This one is me talking about D-Wave and what we do. This one is Hartmut Neven talking about using our quantum annealing processors for machine...
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Quantum processors and ‘co-design’
There is an high-level introductory article written over at physicsandcake explaining how a renewed interest in ‘co-design’ in the field of High Performance Computing relates to D-Wave’s processors and...
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Vesuvius: A closer look – 512 qubit processor gallery
The next generation of D-Wave’s technology is called Vesuvius, and it’s going to be a very interesting processor. The testing and development of this new generation of quantum processor is going well....
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“Inside the chip”– new video showing Rainier 128 processor
Here is a video showing how some of the parts of a D-Wave Rainier processor go together to create the fabric of the quantum computer. The animation shows how the processor is made up of 128 qubits, 352...
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Some new Rainier science
Here is a short break from the sparse coding mayhem. A recent paper by some interesting folks appeared today on the arxiv. They ran some experiments on the Rainier-based system at USC. Here is some of...
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Link to Singularity 1-1 interview
I recently had the pleasure of doing an interview with Nikola Danaylov AKA Socrates. I really like his interview series — he’s spoken to a who’s who of interesting people. You should watch them. Here...
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First ever DBM trained using a quantum computer
In Terminator 2, Arnold reveals that his CPU is a neural net processor, a learning computer. Of course it is! What else would it be? Interestingly, there are real neural net processors in the world....
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Six interesting findings from recent benchmarking results
Around May 15th of 2013 Google acquired a system built around a 509-qubit Vesuvius 6 (V6) chip. Since it went online, they have been running it 24/7 at 100% usage. Most of this time has been committed...
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Everything you always wanted to know about what it’s like to work here
We posted a new arxiv preprint today. It is called “Architectural considerations in the design of a superconducting quantum annealing processor”. You can download it here. It describes how Vesuvius...
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Training DBMs with physical neural nets
There are a lot of physical neural nets on planet Earth. Just the humans alone account for about 7.139 billion of them. You have one, hidden in close to perfect darkness inside your skull — a complex...
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Entanglement in a Quantum Annealing Processor
A new paper published today in Phys Rev X. It demonstrates eight qubit entanglement in a D-Wave processor, which I believe is a world record for solid state qubits. This is an exceptional paper with an...
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Some Washington pictures
Here are some pictures of the most recent Washington generation chips. These are C16 chips — 16*16*8 = 2,048 physical qubits. Enjoy!
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