Glassy chimeras could be blind to quantum speedup: Designing better benchmarks for quantum annealing machines

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Katzgraber, Helmut G ^a   Hamze, Firas ^b   Andrist, Ruben S ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational physics; Condensed matter physics; Quantum information

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BENCHMARKING; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; GLASS; HARDWARE; ISING MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PHASE SPACE METHODS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; TOPOLOGY;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC BONDS; CLASSICAL OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL CAPABILITY; COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; TRADITIONAL COMPUTERS; WORST-CASE COMPLEXITY;

SPIN GLASS;

EID: 84903152642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021008     Document Type: Article

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