Quantum simulations of classical annealing processes

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Somma, R D ^a   Boixo, S ^b,c   Barnum, H ^b   Knill, E ^d  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM THEORY;

ANNEALING PROCESSING; BOUNDED ERROR PROBABILITY; COMBINATORIAL OP-TIMIZATION PROBLEM; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; QUANTUM ALGORITHMS; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; QUANTUM WALKS; QUANTUM ZENO EFFECT; SPECTRAL GAPS; STOCHASTIC MATRICES;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 53349157069     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.130504     Document Type: Article

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