10-14 July 2016
Africa/Johannesburg timezone
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INVITED SPEAKER: Quantum vs classical optimization: A status update on the arms race

Speaker

Prof. Helmut G. Katzgraber (Texas A&M University)

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Can quantum computers indeed meet the promise of doing complex calculations faster than classical computers based on transistor technologies? While the holy grail of a programmable universal quantum computer will probably still take decades to reach, one can already begin to answer this question by testing programmable quantum annealing machines that are currently being built. These machines, such as the D-Wave 2X, use a non-mainstream method known as adiabatic quantum annealing to perform optimization tasks. In this talk I summarize the most recent benchmarking results on quantum optimization machines.

Primary author

Prof. Helmut G. Katzgraber (Texas A&M University)

Co-authors

Dr Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz (NASA) Mr Andrew J. Ochoa (Texas A&M University) Dr Firas Hamze (D-Wave Systems Inc.) Mr Humberto Munoz-Bauza (Texas A&M University) Dr Salvatore Mandra (Harvard University) Dr Stefan Schnabel (Leipzig University) Dr Wenlong Wang (Texas A&M University) Dr Zheng Zhu (Texas A&M University)

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