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Theory and Implementation of the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm: A Comprehensible Introduction and Case Study Using Qiskit and IBM Quantum Computers

Andreas Sturm

arxiv:2301.09535 v1 · 2023-01-23 · quant-ph

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Analytical Expressions for the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm and its Variants

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arxiv: 2301.09535 · arxiv_version: 2301.09535v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2301.09535 · pith_short_12: VBIDXRDB6NTE · pith_short_16: VBIDXRDB6NTESNRR · pith_short_8: VBIDXRDB

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  | 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())"
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