But the company's paper in Nature demonstrated definitive quantum behavior in a system with eight qubits, made from superconducting
niobium loops.
D - Wave instead uses adiabatic quantum computing, in which an array of chilled, superconducting
niobium loops — the qubits in this system — very quickly find the lowest point in what can be thought of as an energy «landscape» of hills and valleys.
Not exact matches
Its flagship model, known as D - Wave Two, or Vesuvius, contains 512 superconducting
loops of
niobium metal, each containing a Josephson junction.