A new work experimentally demonstrates continuous-variable QAOA on a programmable photonic quantum computer. They show that increasing the algorithm depth from one to two layers improves the solution quality of quadratic optimization problems.
arxiv.org/abs/2606.10432
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We experimentally demonstrate the continuous-variable quantum approximate optimization algorithm (CV-QAOA) for multi-variable problems and multiple QAOA depths using a measurement-based CV quantum com...
