An Application of Quantum Annealing Computing to Seismic Inversion

Autor: Souza, Alexandre M., Martins, Eldues O., Roditi, Itzhak, Sá, Nahum, Sarthour, Roberto S., Oliveira, Ivan S.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Front. Phys., 18 January 2022
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2021.748285
Popis: Quantum computing, along with quantum metrology and quantum communication, are disruptive technologies that promise, in the near future, to impact different sectors of academic research and industry. Among the computational challenges with great interest in science and industry are the inversion problems. These kinds of numerical procedures can be described as the process of determining the cause of an event from measurements of its effects. In this paper, we apply a recursive quantum algorithm to a D-Wave quantum annealer to solve a small scale seismic inversions problem. We compare the obtained results from the quantum computer to those derived from a classical algorithm. The accuracy achieved by the quantum computer is at least as good as that of the classical computer.
Databáze: arXiv