Patent ID: 11915101
Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer implemented method for numerical quantum experimentation, comprising:
receiving data identifying (i) a computational problem that is a candidate for a quantum computation, and (ii) one or more classical numerical algorithms for solving the computational problem;
providing input task data identifying (i) the computational problem, and (ii) the one or more classical numerical algorithms, to a numerical quantum experimentation system, wherein the numerical quantum experimentation system comprises multiple universal numerics workers, each universal numerics worker of the multiple universal numerics workers being configured to solve the computational problem using the one or more classical numerical algorithms;
receiving, from the numerical quantum experimentation system, data representing results of the one or more classical numerical algorithms to solve the computational problem, wherein the data comprises one or more measures relating to the classical numerical algorithms used to obtain solutions to the computational problem, the one or more measures comprising a total number of sweeps required by the classical numerical algorithms to obtain the solutions to the computational problem;
projecting the one or more measures relating to the classical numerical algorithms used to obtain solutions to the computational problem to estimated runtimes on respective quantum computation hardware; and
determining, using the received data and the estimated runtimes, whether the received data indicates that a quantum computation applied to the computational problem has a greater efficacy for arriving at a solution than a classical computation applied to the computational problem.