ORNL workflow on quantum computers (IMAGE) DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Caption ORNL team members applied three independent strategies to decrease their project’s computational workload, which reduced their time to solution from months to a few weeks. First, in a technique called qubit tapering, they decreased the number of qubits required to express the problem, reducing the size of the problem itself. Second, they took fewer measurements to solve the problem by measuring groups of terms once rather than measuring each individual term from every group (a process called qubit-wise commutativity). Third, instead of implementing each circuit individually, they found a way to run four circuits in parallel, allowing them to use all 20 qubits in the H1-1. Credit Adam Malin/ORNL Usage Restrictions Contact source for usage requests. License Original content Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system.