Floating-Point Calculations on a Quantum Annealer: Division and Matrix Inversion

Understand

Systems of linear equations are employed almost universally across a wide range of disciplines, from physics and engineering to biology, chemistry and statistics.

• Traditional solution methods such as Gaussian elimination become very time consuming for large matrices, and more efficient computational methods are desired.
• In the twilight of Moore's Law, quantum computing is perhaps the most direct path out of the darkness.
• There are two complementary paradigms for quantum computing, namely, gated systems and quantum annealers.