I once again propose some reading. Somehow I’ve lived under a rock and had not heard anything about this, not even in research. And then one day, here we were sitting on the brink. D-Wave though admitting it’s not a sustainable true quantum computer definitely is showing prospect and has picked up just shy f 200 Million from little investors like Singapore government, the USA, and Google.
http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2009/12/machine-learning-with-quantum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover’s_algorithm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdense_coding
http://www.vizworld.com/2009/12/google-dwave-creating-quantum-image-search/