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Layout-Aware Embedding for Quantum Annealing Processors

verfasst von : Jose P. Pinilla, Steven J. E. Wilton

Erschienen in: High Performance Computing

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Due to the physical limit in connectivity between qubits in Quantum Annealing Processors (QAPs), when sampling from a problem formulated as an Ising graph model, it is necessary to embed the problem onto the physical lattice of qubits. A valid mapping of the problem nodes into qubits often requires qubit chains to ensure connectivity.
We introduce the concept of layout-awareness for embedding; wherein information about the layout of the input and target graphs is used to guide the allocation of qubits to each problem node. We then evaluate the consequent impact on the sampling distribution obtained from D-Wave’s QAP, and provide a set of tools to assist developers in targeting QAP architectures using layout-awareness. We quantify the results from a layout-agnostic and a layout-aware embedding algorithm on (a) the success rate and time at finding valid embeddings, (b) the metrics of the resulting chains and interactions, and (c) the energy profile of the annealing samples. The latter results are obtained by running experiments on a D-Wave Quantum Annealer, and are directly related to the ability of the device to solve complex problems.
Our technique effectively reduces the search space, which improves the time and success rate of the embedding algorithm and/or finds mappings that result in lower energy samples from the QAP. Together, these contributions are an important step towards an understanding of how near-future Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools can work in concert with quantum computing technologies to solve previously intractable problems.

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Metadaten
Titel
Layout-Aware Embedding for Quantum Annealing Processors
verfasst von
Jose P. Pinilla
Steven J. E. Wilton
Copyright-Jahr
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20656-7_7

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