arXiv:1607.06146

Supervised quantum gate "teaching" for quantum hardware design

Leonardo Banchi, Nicola Pancotti, Sougato Bose

Published Jul 20, 2016• 1 citation

Abstract

We show how to train a quantum network of pairwise interacting qubits such that its evolution implements a target quantum algorithm into a given network subset. Our strategy is inspired by supervised learning and is designed to help the physical construction of a quantum computer which operates with minimal external classical control.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1607.06146

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