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“About seven years ago, I came across a paper on quantum annealing machines by a Canadian venture, D-Wave Systems, and I started researching quantum annealing.” Quantum annealing is a general ...

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The machine did this through a process called quantum annealing. Quantum annealing uses quantum fluctuations — erratic ...