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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2020
Filed:
May. 23, 2019
D-wave Systems Inc., Burnaby, CA;
Alexander Maassen van den Brink, Taipei, TW;
Peter Love, Haverford, PA (US);
Mohammad H. S. Amin, Coquitlam, CA;
Geordie Rose, Vancouver, CA;
David Grant, Vancouver, CA;
Miles F. H. Steininger, Vancouver, CA;
Paul I. Bunyk, New Westminster, CA;
Andrew J. Berkley, Vancouver, CA;
D-WAVE SYSTEMS, INC., Burnaby, CA;
Abstract
Methods and systems for solving various computational problems with quantum processors are provided. Such quantum processors comprise a plurality of quantum devices together with a plurality of coupling devices. The quantum processor is initialized by setting states of the quantum devices and coupling devices and allowed to evolve to a final state which approximates a natural ground state of the computational problem. The final state can include values of nodes arranged in a lattice in the quantum processor and can represent a solution to the computational processor. The computational problem can have complexity P, NP, NP-Hard, or NP-Complete and may be mapped to a quantum processor with nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor couplings. The solution to the computational problem can be read out from the quantum processor and transmitted as a data signal embodied in a carrier wave.