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Quantum algorithms have been shown to be faster, in theory, than the known classical approaches. This has been hard to demonstrate in reality, as it gets much harder to build large and reliable quantum computers. The idea of Distributed Quantum Computation then emerges from this, where multiple, smaller, quantum processors work in parallel to solve a problem that would otherwise only be possible in a single, much larger, quantum computer. By the implementation of tele-gates, which exploit quantum entanglement to achieve non-local quantum operations, it has been shown that distributed quantum computing is possible for the circuit model paradigm. Quantum annealers, devices that employ quantum annealing to make computations, have seemingly been forgotten from this idea. As far as we know, there there is no published research discussing the idea of Distributed Quantum Annealing. My thesis work will investigate possible protocols to distribute quantum annealing to various processors and will find out how well these found protocols work, both in the ideal case and in the presence of noise.
