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Quantum Engineering Year 1: Quantum Mechanics Core Month 23Day 640

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Year 1·Month 23·Week 4

Day 640: QAOA Formulation

Day 640 of 2,016~5 min read

Learning Objectives

•Formulate combinatorial optimization as QAOA
•Understand cost and mixer Hamiltonians
•Construct the QAOA circuit
•Analyze the p=1 case analytically
•Apply QAOA to MaxCut
•Understand the quantum-classical optimization loop

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