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Physical Review X

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Denchev, Vasil S ^a   Boixo, Sergio ^a   Isakov, Sergei V ^a   Ding, Nan ^a   Babbush, Ryan ^a   Smelyanskiy, Vadim ^a   Martinis, John ^a   Neven, Hartmut ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

MONTE CARLO METHODS; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

BINARY OPTIMIZATION; COMPUTATIONAL ADVANTAGES; COMPUTATIONAL VALUE; NUMBER PARTITIONING PROBLEMS; OPTIMIZED IMPLEMENTATION; QUANTUM MONTE CARLO; STRUCTURED PROBLEMS; SUCCESS PROBABILITIES;

HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84992618487     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.6.031015     Document Type: Article

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