Investigating the performance of an adiabatic quantum optimization processor

Quantum Information Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 77-88

  Karimi, Kamran ^a   Dickson, Neil G ^a   Hamze, Firas ^a   Amin, M H S ^a   Drew Brook, Marshall ^a   Chudak, Fabian A ^a   Bunyk, Paul I ^a   MacReady, William G ^a   Rose, Geordie ^a  

^a D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adiabatic; Performance; Quantum optimization; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC; BINARY VARIABLES; COMPUTATION TIME; INTERNET BASED COMPUTING; ISING SPIN GLASS; MATRIX ELEMENTS; NP-HARD; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SIZE; PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO SIMULATIONS; QUANTUM OPTIMIZATION; QUANTUM PROCESSORS; REALISTIC SYSTEMS; RUNNING TIME; SIMULATION; TIME-SCALES;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; SPIN GLASS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 84856724473     PISSN: 15700755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11128-011-0235-0     Document Type: Article

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