Spin-Glass Quench Dynamics on D-Wave Annealer
Programmable quantum annealing (quench simulation) · Simulation · D-Wave Ocean SDK
Benchmark of real-time spin-glass quench dynamics on D-Wave superconducting annealers against state-of-the-art classical tensor-network and neural-network simulators. The collaboration showed that for 2D, 3D and infinite-dimensional spin glasses the annealer produces samples in close agreement with the Schrödinger equation while leading classical methods cannot match the accuracy within reasonable runtimes. The paper argues this is a regime where quantum simulation offers a genuine, application-framed advantage for dynamics questions relevant to condensed-matter physics.
Benchmark of real-time spin-glass quench dynamics on D-Wave superconducting annealers against state-of-the-art classical tensor-network and neural-network simulators. The collaboration showed that for 2D, 3D and infinite-dimensional spin glasses the annealer produces samples in close agreement with the Schrödinger equation while leading classical methods cannot match the accuracy within reasonable runtimes. The paper argues this is a regime where quantum simulation offers a genuine, application-framed advantage for dynamics questions relevant to condensed-matter physics.
Shifts the D-Wave story from combinatorial optimization to physics-simulation advantage, a domain where classical tensor-network methods had previously been considered competitive.
D-Wave Advantage2 superconducting quantum annealer
D-Wave Ocean SDK