Quantum Annealing and Other Optimization Methods

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Das, Arnab (Editor), Chakrabarti, Bikas K. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Physics, 679
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical optimization.; Condensed matter.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Optimization.

Quantum annealing employs quantum fluctuations in frustrated systems or networks to anneal the system down to its ground state, or more generally to its so-called minimum cost state. Often this procedure turns out to be more effective, in multivariable optimization problems, than its classical count...