LANL and D-Wave Researchers Discover New Insights into Quantum Fluctuations and Ordered States
LANL and D-Wave Researchers Discover New Insights into Quantum Fluctuations and Ordered States
Experimental research conducted by a joint team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and D-Wave Quantum Systems examines the paradoxical role of fluctuations in inducing magnetic ordering on a network of qubits. Using a D-Wave quantum annealing platform, the team found that fluctuations can lower the total energy of the interacting magnetic moments, an understanding that may help to reduce the cost of quantum processing in devices.