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Quantum neural networks: Current status and prospects for development

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The idea of quantum artificial neural networks, first formulated in [34], unites the artificial neural network concept with the quantum computation paradigm. Quantum artificial neural networks were first systematically considered in the PhD thesis by T. Menneer (1998). Based on the works of Menneer and Narayanan [42, 43], Kouda, Matsui, and Nishimura [35, 36], Altaisky [2, 68], Zhou [67], and others, quantum-inspired learning algorithms for neural networks were developed, and are now used in various training programs and computer games [29, 30]. The first practically realizable scaled hardware-implemented model of the quantum artificial neural network is obtained by D-Wave Systems, Inc. [33]. It is a quantum Hopfield network implemented on the basis of superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs). In this work we analyze possibilities and underlying principles of an alternative way to implement quantum neural networks on the basis of quantum dots. A possibility of using quantum neural network algorithms in automated control systems, associative memory devices, and in modeling biological and social networks is examined.

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  1. Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russia

    M. V. Altaisky

  2. National University of Science and Technology “MISIS”, Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 119049, Russia

    N. E. Kaputkina

  3. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, ul. Joliot-Curie 6, Dubna, 141980, Russia

    V. A. Krylov

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Original Russian Text © M.V. Altaisky, N.E. Kaputkina, V.A. Krylov, 2014, published in Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014, Vol. 45, No. 6.

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Altaisky, M.V., Kaputkina, N.E. & Krylov, V.A. Quantum neural networks: Current status and prospects for development. Phys. Part. Nuclei 45, 1013–1032 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063779614060033

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