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ArticleScience advances2023

Quantum-inspired encoding enhances stochastic sampling of soft matter systems.

Francesco Slongo, Philipp Hauke, Pietro Faccioli, Cristian Micheletti

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Article in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Francesco SlongoScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0009-0005-0959-2385
Philipp HaukePitaevskii BEC Center, Department of Physics, University of Trento, Via Sommarive 14, I-38123 Povo, Trento, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0414-1754
Pietro FaccioliDepartment of Physics and BiQuTe Center, University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5546-5054
Cristian MichelettiScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Bonomea 265, I-34136 Trieste, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1022-1638

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Abstract

Quantum advantage in solving physical problems is still hard to assess due to hardware limitations. However, algorithms designed for quantum computers may engender transformative frameworks for modeling and simulating paradigmatically hard systems. Here, we show that the quadratic unconstrained binary optimization encoding enables tackling classical many-body systems that are challenging for conventional Monte Carlo. Specifically, in self-assembled melts of rigid lattice ring polymers, the combination of high density, chain stiffness, and topological constraints results in divergent autocorrelation times for real-space Monte Carlo. Our quantum-inspired encoding overcomes this problem and enables sampling melts of lattice rings with fixed curvature and compactness, unveiling counterintuitive topological effects. Tackling the same problems with the D-Wave quantum annealer leads to substantial performance improvements and advantageous scaling of sampling computational cost with the size of the self-assembled ring melts.

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PMID37878707
PMCPMC10599611

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