A paper published in the science journal Nature on May 12 went some way to addressing those concerns, reporting that the behavior of one of the eight-qubit tiles that make up the D-Wave One is better explained by a mathematical model assuming quantum effects at work than by one assuming only classical physics was involved.
Basically, they're applying some operations to eight quantum bits (qubits) arranged in a line, measuring what happens, and then trying to fit the measurement results using a numerical model that assumes quantum-mechanical effects as well as another model that doesn't assume them.
It is also assumed that quantum mechanical effects are unimportant, otherwise relativistic quantum mechanics or relativistic quantum field theory the latter theory being a quantum mechanical extension of relativistic continuum mechanics would have to be considered.
The calculations assumed a quantum optical master equation with independent Lindblad type relaxation terms.
Where this is the case, we assumed a quantum link to be impossible, resulting in a total of 228 nights per year where a key exchange could be done in principle.
We also assumed the quanta were evenly distributed among the particles released during a sneeze.
It should be clear from the discussion towards the end of Section 4 and at the beginning of Section 9 that, assuming the quantum equilibrium hypothesis, any analysis of the measurement of a quantum observable for orthodox quantum theory — whatever it is taken to mean and however the corresponding experiment is performed — provides ipso facto at least as adequate an account for Bohmian mechanics.
Assuming the quantum efficiency of the single photon detector is a fixed value in the range of 570-700 nm, we can directly compare the integral contribution of the dye spectra as proportional to the detected signal on the photo detector.
When multiple FRET acceptors are present it is assumed that a quantum of energy is either released from the donor, or transferred in toto to only one of the acceptors present.
As will be discussed in more detail in Section 4.5, tubulin states are assumed to depend on quantum events, so that quantum coherence among different tubulins is possible.
