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pith:2018:IXARQGQRC75QWVZFQ734M7POWH

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Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: Performance, Mechanism, and Implementation on Near-Term Devices

Hannes Pichler, Leo Zhou, Mikhail D. Lukin, Sheng-Tao Wang, Soonwon Choi

arxiv:1812.01041 v2 · 2018-12-03 · quant-ph · cond-mat.dis-nn · cond-mat.stat-mech

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Canonical hash

45c1181a1117fb0b572587f7c67deeb1d8cbbad491014f5c67e5a35fc650656c

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arxiv: 1812.01041 · arxiv_version: 1812.01041v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1812.01041 · pith_short_12: IXARQGQRC75Q · pith_short_16: IXARQGQRC75QWVZF · pith_short_8: IXARQGQR

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/IXARQGQRC75QWVZFQ734M7POWH \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 45c1181a1117fb0b572587f7c67deeb1d8cbbad491014f5c67e5a35fc650656c

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    "primary_cat": "quant-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2018-12-03T19:25:23Z",
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