Vacancies in graphene: an application of adiabatic quantum optimization

Abstract

Quantum annealers have grown in complexity to the point that quantum computations involving few thousands of qubits are now possible. In this paper, \textcolor{black}{with the intentions to show the feasibility of quantum annealing to tackle problems of physical relevance, we used a simple model, compatible with the capability of current quantum annealers, to study} the relative stability of graphene vacancy defects. By mapping the crucial interactions that dominate carbon-vacancy interchange onto a quadratic unconstrained binary optimization problem, our approach exploits \textcolor{black}{the ground state as well the excited states found by} the quantum annealer to extract all the possible arrangements of multiple defects on the graphene sheet together with their relative formation energies. This approach reproduces known results and provides a stepping stone towards applications of quantum annealing to problems of physical-chemical interest.

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