Systems and methods for interacting with a quantum computing system

a quantum computing and quantum computing technology, applied in computing, cooling/ventilation/heating modification, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of prohibitive cost of operation of digital supercomputers, relatively scarce digital supercomputers, and high operating costs, so as to minimize the total cost of consumption of digital supercomputer resources.

Inactive Publication Date: 2017-01-12
D WAVE COMML
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This approach significantly reduces the total cost incurred for digital supercomputer resources by leveraging the quantum computing system's faster convergence rate, allowing for more efficient optimization of functions with fewer iterations and evaluations.

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Due to their immense computational resources, digital supercomputers are relatively scarce (compared to, for example, personal computers) and can be expensive to operate.
In many cases, the cost of operating a digital supercomputer is prohibitive and a potential user who cannot afford the computational resources of a digital supercomputer is forced to simplify a computational task to an approximation that can be completed using more affordable computational resources.

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[0032]In the following description, some specific details are included to provide a thorough understanding of various disclosed embodiments. One skilled in the relevant art, however, will recognize that embodiments may be practiced without one or more of these specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc. In other instances, well-known structures associated with quantum processors, such as quantum devices, coupling devices, and control systems including microprocessors, drive circuitry and nontransitory computer- or processor-readable media such as nonvolatile memory for instance read only memory (ROM), electronically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM) or FLASH memory, etc., or volatile memory for instance static or dynamic random access memory (ROM) have not been shown or described in detail to avoid unnecessarily obscuring descriptions of the embodiments of the present systems and methods. Throughout this specification and the appended claims, the words “ele...

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Systems and methods that employ interactions between quantum computing systems and digital computing systems are described. For an iterative method, a quantum computing system may be designed, operated, and / or adapted to provide a rate of convergence that is greater than the rate of convergence of a digital supercomputer. When the digital supercomputer is iteratively used to evaluate an objective function at a cost incurred of C per iteration, the quantum computing system may be used to provide the input parameter(s) to the objective function and quickly converge on the input parameter(s) that optimize the objective function. Thus, a quantum computing system may be used to minimize the total cost incurred CT for consumption of digital supercomputer resources when a digital supercomputer is iteratively employed to evaluate an objective function.

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BACKGROUNDField[0001]The present systems and methods generally relate to interacting with quantum computing systems, and particularly relate to interactions between quantum computing systems and digital computing systems.Quantum Computing Systems[0002]A quantum computing system is any computing system that employs a quantum processor. A quantum processor is any computer processor that is designed to leverage at least one quantum mechanical phenomenon (such as superposition, entanglement, tunneling, etc.) in the processing of quantum information. Many different designs for quantum processor hardware exist, including but not limited to: photonic quantum processors, superconducting quantum processors, nuclear magnetic resonance quantum processors, ion-trap quantum processors, topological quantum processors, quantum dot quantum processors, etc. Regardless of the specific hardware implementation, all quantum processors encode and manipulate quantum information in quantum mechanical objec...

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Patent Type & AuthorityApplications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06N99/00G06F13/40H05K7/20G06F13/36
CPCG06N99/002H05K7/20372G06F13/4068G06F13/36G06F9/5005
InventorWILLIAMS, COLIN P.
OwnerD WAVE COMML