Hybrid Quantum Annealing via Molecular Dynamics
Abstract
A novel quantum-classical hybrid scheme is proposed to efficiently solve large-scale combinatorial optimization problems. The key concept is to introduce a Hamiltonian dynamics of the classical flux variables associated with the quantum spins of the transverse-field Ising model. Molecular dynamics of the classical fluxes can be used as a powerful preconditioner to sort out the frozen and ambivalent spins for quantum annealers. The performance and accuracy of our smooth hybridization in comparison to the standard classical algorithms (the tabu search and the simulated annealing) are demonstrated by employing the MAX-CUT and Ising spin-glass problems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2004.03972,
title = {Hybrid Quantum Annealing via Molecular Dynamics},
author = {Hirotaka Irie and Haozhao Liang and Takumi Doi and Shinya Gongyo and Tetsuo Hatsuda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.03972},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
14 pages, 10 figures; v2: 17 pages, 14 figures, supplementary note added, to be published in Scientific Reports