Quantum Artificial Life in an IBM Quantum Computer

TL;DR

This paper reports the first experimental implementation of a quantum artificial life algorithm on an IBM quantum computer, demonstrating quantum behaviors like self-replication, mutation, and inheritance in a quantum setting.

Contribution

It introduces a pioneering quantum biomimetic protocol that encodes life-like behaviors into a real quantum computer, showcasing quantum inheritance and evolution.

Findings

Entanglement spreads through generations of quantum individuals.

Experimental data aligns with the ideal quantum life model.

Quantum artificial life can be explored beyond classical prediction capabilities.

Abstract

We present the first experimental realization of a quantum artificial life algorithm in a quantum computer. The quantum biomimetic protocol encodes tailored quantum behaviors belonging to living systems, namely, self-replication, mutation, interaction between individuals, and death, into the cloud quantum computer IBM ibmqx4. In this experiment, entanglement spreads throughout generations of individuals, where genuine quantum information features are inherited through genealogical networks. As a pioneering proof-of-principle, experimental data fits the ideal model with accuracy. Thereafter, these and other models of quantum artificial life, for which no classical device may predict its quantum supremacy evolution, can be further explored in novel generations of quantum computers. Quantum biomimetics, quantum machine learning, and quantum artificial intelligence will move forward hand in hand through more elaborate levels of quantum complexity.