Theorie Kolloquium | June 07, 16:30
Quantum annealing on five hundred qubits?
Quantum technology is maturing to the point where quantum devices,
such as quantum communication systems, quantum random number
generators and quantum simulators, may be built with powers
exceeding the performance of classical computers. A quantum
annealer, in particular, finds solutions to hard optimization
problems by evolving a known initial configuration towards the
ground state of a Hamiltonian that encodes an optimisation
problem. In this talk I will present results from experiments
on a 108 qubit D-Wave One device based on superconducting flux
qubits and will provide evidence that the device indeed performs
quantum anealing. To assess the computational power of the
quantum annealer I compare it to optimised classical algorithms
and will present first preliminary results for a D-Wave Two
system with more than five hundred qubits.
ETH Zürich
Seminarraum Theoretische Physik
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