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Simulating the Shastry-Sutherland Ising Model using Quantum Annealing — mentioned by boothby

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 18:11:14 GMT

I'm no physics expert but I do make programmable crystals for a living. One of my favorite applications of adiabatic quantum computers is the simulation of physical materials such as [1] wherein we see emergent phenomena like fractional magnetization. My contribution to this paper was to find the configuration of qubits equivalent to the material in question. What's really cool about experiments like this is that you can directly observe the spin configurations that give rise to the fractional states -- if you're sufficiently motivated, you could reproduce the experiment and paw through the…

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Simulating the Shastry-Sutherland Ising Model using Quantum Annealing — mentioned by boothby

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 21:57:03 GMT

Personally, I'm most interested in some rather esoteric applications: in a very real sense, our QPU can be thought of as "programmable matter". Specifically, it can be used to simulate various crystalline lattices [1, 2, 3]. Part of my job is figuring out how to best represent those lattices with our systems, so I'm clearly biased. To directly answer your question, I'm most impressed by [3]: materials with a specific structure called the Shastry-Sutherland lattice exhibit a quantized response to an external magnetic field. This is a place where materials clearly demonstrate a quantum effect…

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