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SUBMITTER: Knysh S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4980455 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20160805
A promising approach to solving hard binary optimization problems is quantum adiabatic annealing in a transverse magnetic field. An instantaneous ground state-initially a symmetric superposition of all possible assignments of N qubits-is closely tracked as it becomes more and more localized near the global minimum of the classical energy. Regions where the energy gap to excited states is small (for instance at the phase transition) are the algorithm's bottlenecks. Here I show how for large probl ...[more]