%0 Journal Article
%T Classical signature of quantum annealing
%A John A. Smolin
%J Frontiers in Physics
%D 2014
%I Frontiers Media
%R 10.3389/fphy.2014.00052
%X A pair of recent articles [1, 2] 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.
%K quantum annealing
%K decoherence
%K quantum computing
%K D-Wave
%K adiabatic quantum computing
%U http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphy.2014.00052/abstract