Quantum software beyond QA

In this deliverable, we will report on the study of near-term applications of our quantum simulator beyond pure quantum annealing. We will consider general adiabatic and non-adiabatic passages, combined with local potentials and instantaneous gates, as a general way to construct many-body wavefunctions, with which to implement variational algorithms and quantum simulations. Benchmarks against existing online platforms such as IBM Q and D-Wave will be thoroughly conducted.In addition, we will report on the designing of annealing schemes for the coherent devices, adapting them to the expected/measured qubit level structure, and studying the influence of Markovian and non-Markovian environments