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- Patent Title: User interface, programmer and/or debugger for embedding and/or modifying problems on quantum processors
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Application No.: US17855095Application Date: 2022-06-30
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Publication No.: US11704012B2Publication Date: 2023-07-18
- Inventor: Murray C. Thom , Fiona L. Hanington , Alexander Condello , William W. Bernoudy , Melody C. Wong , Aidan P. Roy , Kelly T. R. Boothby , Edward D. Dahl
- Applicant: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Applicant Address: CA Burnaby
- Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Current Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
- Current Assignee Address: CA Burnaby
- Agent Cozen O'Connor
- Main IPC: G06F3/048
- IPC: G06F3/048 ; G06F3/04847 ; G06N10/00 ; G06T11/20 ; G06F3/04817 ; G06F16/901

Abstract:
A user interface (UI), data structures and algorithms facilitate programming, analyzing, debugging, embedding, and/or modifying problems that are embedded or to be embedded on an analog processor (e.g., quantum processor), increasing computational efficiency and/or accuracy of problem solutions. The UI provides graph representations (e.g., source graph, target graph and correspondence therebetween) with nodes and edges which may map to hardware components (e.g., qubits, couplers) of the analog processor. Characteristics of solutions are advantageously represented spatially associated (e.g., overlaid or nested) with characteristics of a problem. Characteristics (e.g., bias state) may be represented by color, pattern, values, icons. Issues (e.g., broken chains) may be detected and alerts provided. Problem representations may be modified via the UI, and a computer system may autonomously generate new instances of the problem representation, update data structures, embed the new instance and cause the new instance to be executed by the analog processor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220391081A1 USER INTERFACE, PROGRAMMER AND/OR DEBUGGER FOR EMBEDDING AND/OR MODIFYING PROBLEMS ON QUANTUM PROCESSORS Public/Granted day:2022-12-08
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