By Quentin Hardy March 24, 2014 7:00 am March 24, 2014 7:00 am A quantum computer without its protective thermal canister. The kind of computing D-Wave pursues seeks to define a problem’s answer in terms of an optimal outcome among a near-infinitude of possibilities. Credit Kim Stallknecht for The New York Times In the fight to prove it really has developed a quantum computer, D-Wave Systems may h

