  Quantum computing, along with quantum metrology and quantum communication,
are disruptive technologies that promise, in the near future, to impact
different sectors of academic research and industry. Among the computational
challenges with great interest in science and industry are the inversion
problems. These kinds of numerical procedures can be described as the process
of determining the cause of an event from measurements of its effects. In this
paper, we apply a recursive quantum algorithm to a D-Wave quantum annealer to
solve a small scale seismic inversions problem. We compare the obtained results
from the quantum computer to those derived from a classical algorithm. The
accuracy achieved by the quantum computer is at least as good as that of the
classical computer.
