Benchmarking Advantage and D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealers with exact cover problems
Journal article, 2022
We benchmark the quantum processing units of the largest quantum annealers to date, the 5000 + qubit quantum annealer Advantage and its 2000+ qubit predecessor D-Wave 2000Q, using tail assignment and exact cover problems from aircraft scheduling scenarios. The benchmark set contains small, intermediate, and large problems with both sparsely connected and almost fully connected instances. We find that Advantage outperforms D-Wave 2000Q for almost all problems, with a notable increase in success rate and problem size. In particular, Advantage is also able to solve the largest problems with 120 logical qubits that D-Wave 2000Q cannot solve anymore. Furthermore, problems that can still be solved by D-Wave 2000Q are solved faster by Advantage. We find, however, that D-Wave 2000Q can achieve better success rates for sparsely connected problems that do not require the many new couplers present on Advantage, so improving the connectivity of a quantum annealer does not per se improve its performance.
Quantum computing
Benchmarking
Optimization problems
Quantum annealing
Author
Dennis Willsch
Jülich Research Centre
Madita Willsch
Jülich Research Centre
AIDAS
Carlos D. Gonzalez Calaza
Jülich Research Centre
Fengping Jin
Jülich Research Centre
Hans De Raedt
University of Groningen
Jülich Research Centre
Marika Svensson
Jeppesen Systems AB
Chalmers, Microtechnology and Nanoscience (MC2), Applied Quantum Physics
Kristel Michielsen
RWTH Aachen University
AIDAS
Jülich Research Centre
Quantum Information Processing
1570-0755 (ISSN) 15731332 (eISSN)
Vol. 21 4 141An Open Superconducting Quantum Computer (OpenSuperQ)
European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/820363), 2018-10-01 -- 2021-09-30.
Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology (WACQT)
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (KAW 2017.0449, KAW2021.0009, KAW2022.0006), 2018-01-01 -- 2030-03-31.
Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Computational Mathematics
Other Mathematics
Discrete Mathematics
DOI
10.1007/s11128-022-03476-y