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Coherent simulation with thousands of qubits

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Using a quantum annealer to simulate the dynamics of phase transitions shows that superconducting quantum devices can coherently evolve systems of thousands of individual elements. This is an important step toward quantum simulation and optimization.

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Fig. 1: Quantum annealing of a one-dimensional Ising model.

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  1. Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA, USA

    David Bernal Neira

  2. Research Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Universities Space Research Association, Mountain View, CA, USA

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