Summary
In Science, July 13, 2018, researchers from D-Wave Systems Inc. report upon using a 2048-qubit quantum processing unit to experimentally study a computationally difficult problem known within the eld of quantum magnetism as the transverse eld Ising model. The researchers programmed 3-dimensional cubic lattices containing up to 512 quantum spins into their processor and studied the magnetic properties as a function of energy scales and intentionally induced disorder. The predicted phase tran- sitions between paramagnetic and ordered antiferromagnetic phases for low concentrations of disorder, and between paramagnetic and spin-glass phases for high con- centrations of disorder, were demonstrated as a function of the quantum mechanical energy scale.