A practical approach to quantum annealing (part1)
GOTO Chicago 2020

Monday Apr 27
12:00 PM –
12:40 PM
Room 1
Monday Apr 27
3:30 PM –
4:10 PM
Room 1

A practical approach to quantum annealing (part1)

Slides:


How do you actually program a quantum computer? Find out how to solve problems using quantum annealing and D-Wave's Ocean software.

In this series of talks, we will be writing programs from scratch, run them on the D-Wave 2000Q and review the results.

Part 1

  • Quantum annealing and the Ocean software suite
  • Using the Binary Quadratic Model
  • Introduction to solving Constraint Satifsfaction Problems

Quantum annealing is a technique for solving NP-hard problems using quantum physics. It is gaining significant traction as an alternative - or supplement - to gate model quantum computing. D-Wave has for several years been delivering fully functional quantum computers to research institutions and industry based on this principle and there is a growing body of research and open source software around the technology.