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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

High-order and long-range connectivity for embedding problems in quantum annealing with superconducting flux qubits

Denis Melanson, Antonio Martinez, Muhammet Ali Yurtalan, Yongchao Tang, David K. Kim, Alexander J. Melville, Bethany M. Niedzielski, Jonilyn Yoder, S P Novikov, Evgeny Mozgunov, Daniel A. Lidar, Adrian Lupaşcu

Published Mar 6, 2019• 0 citations
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