Equation 4 · Part 1 · Variational Evolution: How Quantum Computers Learn Their Answers
Symbol p
What this part means
increased [ 2 ].
Its job in the formula
p is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.
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For MaxCut on 3-regular graphs at the shallowest depth ( p=1 ), they proved the algorithm returns a cut at least 0.6924 times the size of the true optimum — a specific, checkable guarantee rather than a promise of “quantum speedup” in the abstract, and one that improves as the depth parameter p is increased [ 2 ] .
The passage around this formula
…the algorithm returns a cut at least 0.6924 times the size of the true optimum — a specific, checkable guarantee rather than a promise of “quantum speedup” in the abstract, and one that improves as the depth parameter p is increased [ 2 ] .
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