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Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform: Applications to Quantum Algorithm Design
Cupjin Huang, M. Szegedy, Fang Zhang, Xun Gao, Jianxin Chen, Yaoyun Shi·September 5, 2019
PhysicsComputer Science
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Abstract
We report our work on the Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform (AC-QDP). The capability of AC-QDP's computational engine was already reported in \cite{CZH+18, ZHN+19}.In this follow-up article, we demonstrate with figures how AC-QDP helps in testing large-scale quantum algorithms (currently within the QAOA framework). We give new benchmark results on regular graphs. AC-QDP's QAOA framework can simulate thousands of qubits for up to $4$ layers. Then we discuss two interesting use cases we have implemented on the platform: 1. Optimal QAOA sequences for small-cycle free graphs; 2. Graph structure discovery.