Two-Qubit Implementation of QAOA for MAX-CUT on an NV-Center Quantum Processor

Leon E. Röscher, Talía L. M. Lezama, Luca Cimino +3

We report a proof-of-principle implementation of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) for the smallest nontrivial MAX-CUT instance on an NV-center-based quantum pr…