How "Quantum" is the D-Wave Machine?

By S. Shin, Graeme Smith, John A. Smolin, Umesh V. Vazirani. 2014

153 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Recently there has been intense interest in claims about the performance of the D-Wave machine. In this paper, we outline a simple classical model, and show that it achieves excellent correlation with published input-output behavior of the D-Wave One machine on 108 qubits. While raising questions about "how quantum" the D-Wave machine is, the new model also provides additional algorithmic insights into the nature of the native computational problem solved by the D-Wave machine.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/55d41abc5742de83d116a53242661e9fd3726245

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1. Helmut G. Katzgraber
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In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Helmut G. Katzgraber
2. William D. Oliver
3. Philipp Hauke

Citations in the corpus

• Perspectives of quantum annealing: methods and implementations (2019, background): “16 045006 [113] Shin S W, Smith G, Smolin J A and Vazirani U 2014 How “Quantum” is the D-Wave Machine? (arXiv:1401.”