It sounded to me as if it's been proven. Of course, I'm not qualified to judge the proof.
It also relies on a previous result that proved that adiabatic quantum computers were exactly as capable as, er, the other kind. The current paper is a proof about the limits of adiabatic quantum computers, so, if the previous result fell, this one wouldn't apply.
But, yeah, I had had the same sort of suspicions you did.
The theory of quantum computers sounds too good to be true, but there are many other such things that have seemed so as well but turned out to be real (superconductivity, say, or Halbach arrays). TAANSTAAFL.
Maybe we need to adjust the quantum error correction unit. It's over there in the corner next to the Heisenberg compensator.
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It also relies on a previous result that proved that adiabatic quantum computers were exactly as capable as, er, the other kind. The current paper is a proof about the limits of adiabatic quantum computers, so, if the previous result fell, this one wouldn't apply.
But, yeah, I had had the same sort of suspicions you did.
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Maybe we need to adjust the quantum error correction unit. It's over there in the corner next to the Heisenberg compensator.
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True, true. Those are the exceptions, though. :-)
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