Sequences of selective rotation operators for three group clustering on qutrits by means of quantum annealing
Vladimir Evgen'evich Zobov, I. S. Pichkovskiy · 2022
Recently, it was demonstrated1 that the clustering considered in this articlec, which consists in partitioning a set of data points into subsets depending on the proximity of some properties, can be performed using quantum annealing on a system of two-level quantum elements - qubits. In previous work2, we proposed to pass from qubits to qutrits - three-level quantum elements showed the advantages of such a replacement and obtained a time-dependent effective Hamiltonian. In the present paper, we have found a sequence of selective rotation operators that allows one to realize adiabatic evolution with this effective Hamiltonian in the discrete-time approximation. On five qutrits, represented by spins S = 1, we performed a simulation of clustering a set of six points on a plane into three groups by means of quantum annealing.