We report our work on the Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform (AC-QDP). The capability of AC-QDP's computational engine was already reported in \cite{CZH+18, ZHN+19}.In this follow-up article, we demonstrate with figures how AC-QDP helps in testing large-scale quantum algorithms (currently within the QAOA framework). We give new benchmark results on regular graphs. AC-QDP's QAOA framework can simulate thousands of qubits for up to 4 layers. Then we discuss two interesting use cases we have implemented on the platform: 1. Optimal QAOA sequences for small-cycle free graphs; 2. Graph structure discovery.
@article{arxiv.1909.02559,
title = {Alibaba Cloud Quantum Development Platform: Applications to Quantum Algorithm Design},
author = {Cupjin Huang and Mario Szegedy and Fang Zhang and Xun Gao and Jianxin Chen and Yaoyun Shi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.02559},
year = {2019}
}