Using an approach inspired from spin glasses, we show that the multimode disordered Dicke model is equivalent to a quantum Hopfield network. We propose variational ground states for the system at zero temperature, which we conjecture to be exact in the thermodynamic limit. These ground states contain the information on the disordered qubit-photon couplings. These results lead to two intriguing physical implications. First, once the qubit-photon couplings can be engineered, it should be possible to build scalable pattern-storing systems whose dynamics is governed by quantum laws. Second, we argue with an example of how such Dicke quantum simulators might be used as a solver of "hard" combinatorial optimization problems.

Dicke simulators with emergent collective quantum computational abilities / Rotondo, Pietro; Cosentino Lagomarsino, Marco; Viola, Giovanni. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 114:14(2015), pp. 143601.1-143601.5. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.143601]

Dicke simulators with emergent collective quantum computational abilities

Rotondo, Pietro;
2015-01-01

Abstract

Using an approach inspired from spin glasses, we show that the multimode disordered Dicke model is equivalent to a quantum Hopfield network. We propose variational ground states for the system at zero temperature, which we conjecture to be exact in the thermodynamic limit. These ground states contain the information on the disordered qubit-photon couplings. These results lead to two intriguing physical implications. First, once the qubit-photon couplings can be engineered, it should be possible to build scalable pattern-storing systems whose dynamics is governed by quantum laws. Second, we argue with an example of how such Dicke quantum simulators might be used as a solver of "hard" combinatorial optimization problems.
2015
Dicke simulators with emergent collective quantum computational abilities / Rotondo, Pietro; Cosentino Lagomarsino, Marco; Viola, Giovanni. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS. - ISSN 0031-9007. - 114:14(2015), pp. 143601.1-143601.5. [10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.143601]
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