Experimental evaluation of an adiabiatic quantum system for combinatorial optimization

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  McGeoch, Catherine C ^a   Wang, Cong ^b  

^a AMHERST COLLEGE   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adiabatic quantum computing; D Wave; Heuristics; Quantum annealing

Indexed keywords

ADIABATIC QUANTUM COMPUTATION; D-WAVE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; HEURISTICS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; QUANTUM ANNEALING; QUANTUM COMPUTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

EID: 84879544432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2482767.2482797     Document Type: Conference Paper

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