Focus Session: Ground State Quantum Computing and Quantum Annealing

Presentations

• The Space-Time Circuit-to-Hamiltonian Construction and Its Applications

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 4, 2015, 2:30 PM – March 4, 2015, 3:06 PM

  Authors

  • Barbara Terhal

    • RWTH - Aachen

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• Dimensionality reduction for adiabatic quantum optimizer in presence of local disorder

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 3:06 PM – March 4, 2015, 3:18 PM

  Authors

  • Gian Giacomo Guerreschi

    • Harvard Univ

  • Salvatore Mandr\`a

    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ

  • Alan Aspuru-Guzik

    • Harvard Univ
    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University.
    • Harvard University
    • Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

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• Best-case performance of quantum annealers on native spin-glass benchmarks: How chaos can affect success probabilities

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 3:18 PM – March 4, 2015, 3:30 PM

  Authors

  • Zheng Zhu

    • Texas A\&M University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University

  • Andrew J. Ochoa

    • Texas A\&M University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University

  • Firas Hamze

    • D-Wave Systems, Inc.

  • Stefan Schnabel

    • Theoretical Physics Institute, Universitaet Leipzig

  • Helmut G. Katzgraber

    • Texas A\&M University
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A\&M University

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• Role of Classical Hardness for Quantum Annealers

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 3:30 PM – March 4, 2015, 3:42 PM

  Authors

  • Itay Hen

    • Information Sciences Institute
    • Univ of Southern California
    • Information Science Institute

  • Victor Martin-Mayor

    • Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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• Benchmarking using Frustrated Ising Problems with Planted Solutions

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 3:42 PM – March 4, 2015, 3:54 PM

  Authors

  • Joshua Job

    • University of Southern California

  • Itay Hen

    • Information Sciences Institute
    • Univ of Southern California
    • Information Science Institute

  • Tameem Albash

    • University of Southern California
    • Univ of Southern California

  • Troels R{\O}nnow

    • ETH - Zurich and Nokia Technologies, Cambridge (UK)
    • ETH Zurich
    • Nokia

  • Matthias Troyer

    • Theoretische Physik, ETH
    • ETH - Zurich
    • ETH Zurich

  • Daniel Lidar

    • University of Southern California
    • Univ of Southern California

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• Annealing of Embedded Spin Glasses

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 3:54 PM – March 4, 2015, 4:06 PM

  Authors

  • Salvatore Mandr\`a

    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL), Harvard University
    • Harvard Univ

  • Davide Venturelli

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)

  • Sergey Knysh

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)
    • SGT Inc., NASA Ames Research Center

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)

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• Quantum annealing of a semiclassical spin chain with defects

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 4:06 PM – March 4, 2015, 4:18 PM

  Authors

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University
    • Michigan State Univ

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)

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• Investigations of a D-Wave Two: Ground States of Random Spanning Trees

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 4:18 PM – March 4, 2015, 4:30 PM

  Authors

  • J.S. Hall

    • Mississippi State University

  • Mark Novotny

    • Mississippi State University

  • T. Neuhaus

    • Julich Supercomputing Centre

  • Kristel Michielsen

    • Julich Supercomputing Centre

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• Reexamining classical and quantum models for the D-Wave One processor

  POSTER

  March 4, 2015, 4:30 PM – March 4, 2015, 4:42 PM

  Authors

  • Tameem Albash

    • University of Southern California
    • Univ of Southern California

  • Troels R{\O}nnow

    • ETH - Zurich and Nokia Technologies, Cambridge (UK)
    • ETH Zurich
    • Nokia

  • Matthias Troyer

    • Theoretische Physik, ETH
    • ETH - Zurich
    • ETH Zurich

  • Daniel Lidar

    • University of Southern California
    • Univ of Southern California

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• Optimal quantum annealing in p-spin model

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 4:42 PM – March 4, 2015, 4:54 PM

  Authors

  • Kostyantyn Kechedzhi

    • QuAIL NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop 269-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035 and USRA RIACS, 615 National ave, 94043 Mountain View CA
    • QuAIL, NASA Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 269-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035 and USRA RIACS, 615 National ave, Mountain View CA 94043

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • QuAIL NASA Ames Research Center Mail Stop 269-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035

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• Isothermal quantum annealing of the 1D transverse Ising chain

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 4:54 PM – March 4, 2015, 5:06 PM

  Authors

  • Davide Venturelli

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)

  • Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz

    • NASA Ames Research Center

  • Sergei Isakov

    • Google

  • Sergey Knysh

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA Ames Research Center Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL)
    • SGT Inc., NASA Ames Research Center

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University
    • Michigan State Univ

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• Computational Role of Collective Tunneling in a Quantum Annealer

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 5:06 PM – March 4, 2015, 5:18 PM

  Authors

  • Hartmut Neven

    • Google

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA

  • Sergio Boixo

    • Google

  • Alireza Shabani

    • Google

  • Sergei Isakov

    • Google

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University
    • Michigan State Univ

  • Vasil Denchev

    • Google

  • Mohammad Amin

    • D-Wave Systems
    • D-Wave

  • Anatoly Smirnov

    • D-Wave

  • Masoud Mohseni

    • Google

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• Collective disispative tunneling during quantum annealing on D-Wave II device

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 5:18 PM – March 4, 2015, 5:30 PM

  Authors

  • Vadim Smelyanskiy

    • NASA Ames Research Center
    • NASA

  • Sergio Boixo

    • Google

  • Alireza Shabani

    • Google

  • Sergei Isakov

    • Google

  • Mark Dykman

    • Michigan State University
    • Michigan State Univ

  • Vasil Denchev

    • Google

  • Mohammad Amin

    • D-Wave Systems
    • D-Wave

  • Anatoly Smirnov

    • D-Wave Systems

  • Masoud Mohseni

    • Google

  • Hartmut Neven

    • Google

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• Optimising simulated quantum annealing, simulated annealing and a mean-field algorithm to find ground states of Ising spin glasses

  ORAL

  March 4, 2015, 5:30 PM – March 4, 2015, 5:42 PM

  Authors

  • Damian S. Steiger

    • ETH - Zurich

  • Troels R{\O}nnow

    • ETH - Zurich and Nokia Technologies, Cambridge (UK)
    • ETH Zurich
    • Nokia

  • Matthias Troyer

    • Theoretische Physik, ETH
    • ETH - Zurich
    • ETH Zurich

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