Quantum Computing Claims Produce Uncertainty
A Canadian company developing a quantum computer made news in May when it sold a system to defense manufacturer Lockheed-Martin for $10 million, though skeptics question whether the machine made by D-Wave Systems, of Burnaby, British Columbia, could surpass conventional computers. Critics had been somewhat mollified after the company published a paper in the journal Nature showing that their processors were indeed relying on quantum mechanical effects. Nonetheless, experts are not yet convinced D-Wave has created a true quantum computer.
