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Quantum outperforms classical supercomputers in approximate optimisation problems

Optimisation using quantum computing

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Researchers from new study from University of South Carolina found that quantum annealing could offer a computational edge over classical supercomputers in solving certain types of optimization problems—specifically when near-optimal rather than exact solutions are acceptable.

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