1305.4904 (John A. Smolin et al.)

Classical signature of quantum annealing    [PDF]

John A. Smolin, Graeme Smith

A pair of recent articles concluded that the D-Wave One machine actually operates in the quantum regime, rather than performing some classical evolution. Here we give a classical model that leads to the same behaviors used in those works to infer quantum effects. Thus, the evidence presented does not demonstrate the presence of quantum effects.

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