Quantum Computing
Dataset for Analysis of a Programmable Quantum Annealer as a Random Number Generator
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.02573
The raw measurements from the D-Wave quantum annealer are -1/+1 spins. They were converted to binary bitstrings by mapping all -1 spins to 0 states.
The datafiles are .bin files where each bit is time ordered (and fixed hardware-indexed ordered). The number of qubits on the device is 2032, so each group of 2032 bits is one anneal-readout cycle.
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