Overview of NASA QuAIL Team Research

Shon R. Grabbe, Eleanor Gilbert Rieffel, Stuart Hadfield, Salvatore Mandrà, Jeffrey Marshall, Gianni Mossi, Norm M. Tubman, Davide Venturelli, Walter Vinci, Zhihui Wang, Max Wilson, Filip Wudarski, Bryan O’Gorman

Published Sep 23, 2019• 3 citations

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Abstract

NASA is constantly confronting massively challenging computational problems. These problems have the potential to limit mission scope and aim. NASA's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (QuAIL) Group was formed to determine the potential for quantum computation to enable more ambitious NASA missions in the future. This presentation highlights recent work by the QuAIL team that is focused on physics insights and applications associated with the D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealing hardware that is located at NASA Ames Research Center.

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