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A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator
Published
Author(s)
Guido Pagano, Aniruddha Bapat, Patrick Becker, Kate Collins, Arinjoy De, Paul Hess, Harvey Kaplan, Antonis Kyprianidis, Wen Lin Tan, Christopher Baldwin, Lucas Brady, A Deshpande, Fangli Liu, Stephen Jordan, Alexey Gorshkov, C Monroe
Citation
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Pagano, G.
, Bapat, A.
, Becker, P.
, Collins, K.
, De, A.
, Hess, P.
, Kaplan, H.
, Kyprianidis, A.
, Tan, W.
, Baldwin, C.
, Brady, L.
, Deshpande, A.
, Liu, F.
, Jordan, S.
, Gorshkov, A.
and Monroe, C.
(2020),
A Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm in a Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=928237
(Accessed October 15, 2025)