QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

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QUANTUM COMPUTER PERFORMS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FACTORING

IBM SCIENTISTS BUILD MACHINE THAT SOLVES MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS WITH QUANTUM MECHANICS

NUMBER 15 FACTORED

FACTORS ARE 3 AND 5

http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/news/20011219_quantum.shtml

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Not yet. The technology used for this demonstration - armies of NMR qubits moving in synchrony - is impossible to scale up to many qubits on a very fundamental level. This demonstration looks good but doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know - in particular, it doesn't tell us anything about whether many-qubit quantum computing will ever be possible.