Floquet Ising dynamics on 51- and 74-qubit heavy-hex lattices

Classically estimate magnetization after up to 30 Floquet Ising cycles on 51 and 74 qubits, where simulations have not converged to the hardware data.

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How results are judged

Task: Estimate classically Floquet Ising observables on 51- and 74-qubit heavy-hex
Metric: Error-bar width on the expectation value (dimensionless), lower is better
Verifier: version 1
Status: Open No route has been scored yet

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Partition	Time limit	CPUs	Memory	GPUs
main	01:00:00 default 00:10:00	4	8192.0 MB	0

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