Architectural Considerations in the Design of a Superconducting Quantum Annealing Processor

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Bunyk, P I ^a   Hoskinson, Emile M ^a   Johnson, Mark W ^a   Tolkacheva, Elena ^a   Altomare, Fabio ^a   Berkley, Andrew J ^a   Harris, Richard ^a   Hilton, Jeremy P ^a   Lanting, Trevor ^a   Przybysz, Anthony J ^b   Whittaker, Jed ^a  

^a D WAVE SYSTEMS INC   (Canada)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational physics; quantum computing; superconducting integrated circuits

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERSION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; QUANTUM COMPUTERS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; RECONFIGURABLE HARDWARE; SQUIDS; STAGES;

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; DISSIPATED ENERGY; PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLS; QUANTUM ALGORITHMS; QUANTUM ANNEALING; QUANTUM COMPUTING; STATIC-POWER DISSIPATION; SUPERCONDUCTING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN;

EID: 84959364151     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2014.2318294     Document Type: Article

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