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Machine invention of quantum computing circuits by means of genetic programming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2008

Lee Spector  and
Jon Klein
Lee Spector
Affiliation:
School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Jon Klein
Affiliation:
School of Cognitive Science, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
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Abstract

We demonstrate the use of genetic programming in the automatic invention of quantum computing circuits that solve problems of potential theoretical and practical significance. We outline a developmental genetic programming scheme for such applications; in this scheme the evolved programs, when executed, build quantum circuits and the resulting quantum circuits are then tested for “fitness” using a quantum computer simulator. Using the PushGP genetic programming system and the QGAME quantum computer simulator we demonstrate the invention of a new, better than classical quantum circuit for the two-oracle AND/OR problem.

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Artificial IntelligenceGenetic ProgrammingMachine InventionQuantum Computing

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AI EDAM , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , August 2008 , pp. 275 - 283
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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