Quantum magnetism on a chip

D-Wave Systems builds superconducting quantum annealing processors that are primarily intended to be used for solving classical computation problems such as optimization and sampling. However, recent publications in Science (Vol. 361, Issue 6398, pp. 162-165) and Nature (Vol. 560, Issue 7719, August 22, 2018) have shown how this computing platform can be used as a programmable quantum magnet that can be used to simulate physical systems relevant to the field of condensed matter physics. This lecture will provide a brief review of the aforementioned results and an update on related experiments.