Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC) is an alternative to the better-known gate model of Quantum computation. manufactures Quantum annealing processor chips that exploit q.
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Quantum annealing (QA) describes a type of heuristic search algorithm that can be implemented to run in the native instruction set\'\' of an AQC platform.
The two models are polynomially equivalent, but otherwise quite dissimilar: one property that distinguishes AQC from the gate model is its analog nature.
Adiabatic Quantum Computation (AQC) is an alternative to the better-known gate model of Quantum computation