Spin Glass: A Bridge between quantum computation and statistical mechanics

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We show two fascinating topics lying between quantum information processing and statistical mechanics.

• First, we introduce an elaborated technique, the surface code, to prepare the particular quantum state with robustness against decoherence.
• Second, we show another interesting technique to employ quantum nature, quantum annealing.
• Through both of the topics, we would shed light on the birth of the interdisciplinary field between quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics.