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Quantum advantage for combinatorial optimization problems, Simplified

Quantum Physics 2022-12-27 v1
Authors: Mario Szegedy
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Abstract

We observe that fault-tolerant quantum computers have an optimal advantage over classical computers in approximating solutions to many NP optimization problems. This observation however gives nothing in practice.

Keywords

quantum computation quantum computing quantum annealing

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@article{arxiv.2212.12572,
  title  = {Quantum advantage for combinatorial optimization problems, Simplified},
  author = {Mario Szegedy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.12572},
  year   = {2022}
}

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