Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: A Quantum Annealing Approach to Reduce Covid-19 Spread on College
  Campuses   Disruptions of university campuses caused by COVID-19 have motivated
strategies to prevent the spread of infectious diseases while maintaining some
level of in person learning. In response, the proposed approach recursively
applied a quantum annealing algorithm for Max-Cut optimization on D-Wave
Systems, which grouped students into cohorts such that the number of possible
infection events via shared classrooms was minimized. To test this approach,
available coursework data was used to generate highly clustered course
enrollment networks representing students and the classes they share. The
algorithm was then recursively called on these networks to group students, and
a disease model was applied to forecast disease spread. Simulation results
showed that under some assumptions on disease statistics and methods of spread,
the quantum grouping method reduced both the total and peak percentage of
infected students when compared against random groupings of students. Scaling
to larger networks, it is possible that this quantum annealer-assisted grouping
approach may provide practical advantage over classical approaches. This paper,
however, is strictly a proof-of-concept demonstration of the approach and is
not intended to argue for a quantum speedup.

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The categories of this paper are: hep-ex
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The categories of this paper are: funct-an
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The categories of this paper are: nucl-th
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The categories of this paper are: q-bio
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: physics
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: hep-lat
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: solv-int
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: supr-con
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg