Patent ID: 11941486
Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A system, comprising:
a quantum processor;
a control system communicatively coupled to the quantum processor, the control system comprising at least one processor and at least one nontransitory processor-readable medium that stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data which, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the at least one processor to:
cause an annealing of a first qubit of a first pair of qubits toward a solution at a first rate;
cause an annealing a second qubit of the first pair of qubits toward the solution at a second rate concurrently with the annealing of the first qubit of the first pair of qubits, the second rate faster than the first rate;
determine a state of the second qubit of the first pair of qubits at a first time before an end of the annealing of the first qubit of the first pair of qubits; and
cause a modification of the annealing of the first qubit of the first pair of qubits based at least in part on the determined state of the second qubit of the first pair of qubits.