D-Wave Systems Inc.
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Type
Privately held company
Industry Computer hardware
Founded 1999; 19 years ago
Headquarters Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Key people
Vern Brownell, CEO
Geordie Rose, Founder
Eric Ladizinsky, CS
V. Paul Lee, Chair
Products D-Wave One, D-Wave Two, D-Wave 2X, D-Wave 2000Q
Revenue N/A
Net income
N/A
Number of employees
Approx. 100+
Subsidiaries D-Wave Government dwavefederal.com/leadership//
Website
www.dwavesys.com//D-Wave Systems, Inc. [1] is a quantum computing company, based in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. D-Wave is the world's first company to sell quantum computers.[2]
The D-Wave One was built on early prototypes such as D-Wave's Orion Quantum Computer. The prototype was a 16-qubit quantum annealing processor, demonstrated on February 13, 2007 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.[3] D-Wave demonstrated what they claimed to be a 28-qubit quantum annealing processor on November 12, 2007.[4] The chip was fabricated at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Microdevices Lab in Pasadena, California.[5]
The underlying ideas for the D-Wave approach arose from experimental results in condensed matter physics, and in particular work on quantum annealing in magnets performed by Dr. Gabriel Aeppli.[6] These ideas were later recast in the language of quantum computation by MIT physicists Ed Farhi, Seth Lloyd, Terry Orlando and Bill Kaminsky, whose publications in 2000 [7] and 2004 [8] provided both a theoretical model for quantum computation that fit with the earlier work in quantum magnetism (specifically the adiabatic quantum computing model and quantum annealing, its finite temperature variant), and a specific enablement of that idea using superconducting flux qubits which is a close cousin to the designs D-Wave produced.