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Glassy Chimeras Could Be Blind to Quantum Speedup: Designing Better Benchmarks for Quantum Annealing Machines

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: Recent benchmarking of the computational speedup of quantum ``annealing'' machines of the D-Wave-2 type shows that they do not perform faster than a standard desktop computer. A timely theoretical study of the computational tests used in the benchmarking explains why that may be the case.

Source: Physical Review X

DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.4.021008

Authors: Helmut G. Katzgraber, Firas Hamze, Ruben S. Andrist

Institutions: Texas A&M University, D-Wave Systems (Canada), Santa Fe Institute

Language: English

Topic: Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $4,200

Funders: National Science Foundation, University of Texas at Austin, Division of Materials Research