Quantum Annealing and Computation
Event Start:
2019-11-13T19:30:00
Event End:
2019-11-13T21:00:00
Event Information:
Why climb mountains when you can tunnel through them? Harnessing quantum tunneling holds great promise to speed up solutions to optimization problems, ranging from design of circuit boards to protein folding. When computers optimize, they are doing the analog of the physical process of annealing. I will discuss experiments on disordered magnets that quantitatively compare quantum and classical annealing, and demonstrate quantum speedup for reasons that can be understood at a microscopic level.
Event Location:
Chem B250
2036 Main Mall, UBC Vancouver
2036 Main Mall, UBC Vancouver
Speaker:
Thomas F. Rosenbaum
Caltech
Caltech
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Event Start:
2019-11-13T19:30:00
Event End:
2019-11-13T21:00:00
Quantum Annealing and Computation
Event Information:
Why climb mountains when you can tunnel through them? Harnessing quantum tunneling holds great promise to speed up solutions to optimization problems, ranging from design of circuit boards to protein folding. When computers optimize, they are doing the analog of the physical process of annealing. I will discuss experiments on disordered magnets that quantitatively compare quantum and classical annealing, and demonstrate quantum speedup for reasons that can be understood at a microscopic level.
Event Location:
Chem B250
2036 Main Mall, UBC Vancouver