Short-depth QAOA circuits and quantum annealing on higher-order ising models

Abstract We present a direct comparison between QAOA (Quantum Alternating Operator Ansatz), and QA (Quantum Annealing) on 127 qubit problem instances. QAOA with p = 1, 2 rounds is executed on the 127 qubit heavy-hex graph gate-model quantum computer ibm_washington, using on-device grid-searches for...

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Main Authors: Elijah Pelofske, Andreas Bärtschi, Stephan Eidenbenz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-03-01
Series:npj Quantum Information
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41534-024-00825-w