We implement a probabilistic version of the game of life on a quantum annealer in a very direct manner, demonstrating possible use cases for (currently very noisy) quantum annealing devices in the simulation of (usually very stochastic) artificial life and complex systems in general.

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game of life, quantum computing, quantum annealing, complex systems, optimization
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General Conference