Observations on Quantum Computing & Physics

If excitement was a necessary and sufficient criteria to reach higher quantum levels, they certainly must have been achieved yesterday morning in room 374 of the Rotman School of Business here in...

http://wavewatching.net/2017/09/06/the-creative-destruction-lab-reaches-a-new-quantum-level/

It is no secret that I’ve been always impressed with D-Wave. Sure, they “only” perform quantum annealing on their chip, and there is no guarantee that there is any “quantum supremacy” t...

http://wavewatching.net/2017/02/25/taking-it-to-the-next-level/

This blog is most emphatically not about politics, and although it has often been observed that everything is political, this exaggeration actually has become less true the more it is raised. Whe...

http://wavewatching.net/2017/02/12/lets-aspire-to-be-more-than-just-a-friendly-neighbour/

Unless we experience a major calamity resetting the world’s economy to a much lower output, it is a foregone conclusion that the world will miss the CO2 target to limit global warming to 1.5C. ...

http://wavewatching.net/2016/10/10/big-challenges-require-bold-visions/

There’s been a lot of buzz recently about Quantum Computing. Heads of state are talking about it, and lots of money is being poured into research. You may think the field is truly on fire, but ...

http://wavewatching.net/2016/09/26/to-reach-quantum-supremacy-we-need-to-cross-the-entanglement-firepoint/

As I am preparing to again get back into more regular blogging on Quantum Computing, I learned that my second favourite Vancouver based start-up, General Fusion, got some well deserved social med...

http://wavewatching.net/2016/08/10/fusion-is-hotter-than-you-may-think/

He is already fluently bi-lingual, but he also speaks pretty good Quantum.  This isn’t half bad for a head of state: If you also want to impress your friends like this, I recommend Sabine Hos...

http://wavewatching.net/2016/04/15/canadian-pm-justin-trudeau-talkes-quantum-computing/

It took only one scientist to predict them but a thousand to get them confirmed (1004 to be precise). I guess if the confirmation of gravitational waves couldn’t draw me out of my blogging hiat...

http://wavewatching.net/2016/03/07/late-wave/

Really Would Like to Get That Raclette Cheese. Last summer I had to ship a crate of maple syrup to Matthias Troyer at the ETHZ in Switzerland. The conditions we had agreed on for our performanc...

http://wavewatching.net/2015/12/13/d-wave-fast-enough-to-win-my-bet/

Update: Thanks to everybody who keeps pointing me to relevant news (Ramsey, Rolf, Sol and everybody else my overtired brain may not recall at this time). There is no doubt that D-Wave is on a r...

http://wavewatching.net/2015/09/07/riding-the-d-wave/