Approximating the quantum aproximate optimization algorithm with digital-analog interactions

David Headley, Thorge Müller, Ana Martin, Enrique Solano, Mikel Sanz, Frank K. Wilhelm.

By embracing the analog capacity for multi-qubit interactions, we exploit the recently proposed digital-analog quantum computation paradigm, in which the versatility of programmable universal quantum computers and the error resilience of quantum simulators are combined to improve platforms for quantum computation, specially suited to the variational quantum approximate optimisation algorithm

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