White Paper
Performance advantage in quantum Boltzmann sampling
Investigations of quantum computing were originally motivated by the possibility of efficiently simulating quantum systems. Here we approach this challenge using a D-Wave 2000Q system to estimate quantum Boltzmann statistics. We compare performance with state-of-the-art classical Monte Carlo simulations of the quantum systems, and find that, over the problems studied, the D-Wave processor realizes a performance advantage over classical methods that increases with simulated system size.