Mediator-assisted cooling in quantum annealing
M. Pino, Juan José García‐Ripoll · Physical Review A · 2020
We show a significant reduction of errors for an architecture of quantum annealers where bosonic modes mediate the interaction between qubits. These systems have a large redundancy in the subspace of solutions, supported by arbitrarily large bosonic occupations. We explain how this redundancy leads to a mitigation of errors when the bosonic modes operate in the ultrastrong coupling regime. Numerical simulations also predict a large increase of qubit coherence for a specific annealing problem with mediated interactions. We provide evidence that noise reduction occurs in more general types of quantum computers with similar architectures.