Building an adiabatic quantum computer simulation in the classroom
Javier Rodríguez-Laguna, Silvia N. Santalla · American Journal of Physics · 2018
We present a didactic introduction to adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) via the explicit construction of a classical simulator of quantum computers. This constitutes a suitable route to introduce several important concepts for advanced undergraduates in physics: quantum many-body systems, quantum phase transitions, disordered systems, spin-glasses, and computational complexity theory.