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We evaluate the application of quantum annealing (QA) to a real-world combinatorial optimisation problem-room scheduling for sports camps at the Australian Institute of Sport-using both classical and quantum approaches. Due to current…

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With the increasing popularity of quantum computing and in particular quantum annealing, there has been growing research to evaluate the meta-heuristic for various problems in linear algebra: from linear least squares to matrix and tensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ajinkya Borle , Samuel J. Lomonaco

The application of quantum annealing to the optimization of continuous-variable functions is a relatively unexplored area of research. We test the performance of quantum annealing applied to a one-dimensional continuous-variable function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-06 Shunta Arai , Hiroki Oshiyama , Hidetoshi Nishimori

Quantum computing has emerged as a powerful tool to efficiently solve computational challenges, particularly in simulation and optimisation. However, hardware limitations prevent quantum computers from achieving the full theoretical…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Hugo Araujo , Xinyi Wang , Mohammad Mousavi , Shaukat Ali

Recent advances in the development of commercial quantum annealers such as the D-Wave 2X allow solving NP-hard optimization problems that can be expressed as quadratic unconstrained binary programs. However, the relatively small number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-01 Georg Hahn , Hristo N. Djidjev

Quantum annealers (QAs) are specialized quantum computers that minimize objective functions over discrete variables by physically exploiting quantum effects. Current QA platforms allow for the optimization of quadratic objectives defined…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zhengbing Bian , Fabian Chudak , William Macready , Aidan Roy , Roberto Sebastiani , Stefano Varotti

Quantum annealing is a heuristic algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems, and D-Wave Systems Inc. has developed hardware for implementing this algorithm. The current version of the D-Wave quantum annealer can solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Shuntaro Okada , Masayuki Ohzeki , Shinichiro Taguchi

NP-hard problems such as the maximum clique or minimum vertex cover problems, two of Karp's 21 NP-hard problems, have several applications in computational chemistry, biochemistry and computer network security. Adiabatic quantum annealers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-01 Elijah Pelofske , Georg Hahn , Hristo Djidjev

In the quantum optimization paradigm, variational quantum algorithms face challenges with hardware-specific and instance-dependent parameter tuning, which can lead to computational inefficiencies. The promising potential of parameter…

Optimization or sampling of arbitrary pairwise Ising models, in a quantum annealing protocol of constrained interaction topology, can be enabled by a minor-embedding procedure. The logical problem of interest is transformed to a physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-20 Jack Raymond , Ndiamé Ndiaye , Gautam Rayaprolu , Andrew King

Performing experiments on small-scale quantum computers is certainly a challenging endeavor. Many parameters need to be optimized to achieve high-fidelity operations. This can be done efficiently for operations acting on single qubits as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 M. Müller , A. Rivas , E. A. Martínez , D. Nigg , P. Schindler , T. Monz , R. Blatt , M. A. Martin-Delgado

Quantum annealing has emerged as a promising approach for solving NP-hard optimization problems, leveraging quantum phenomena such as quantum tunneling to navigate complex energy landscapes. However, the extent to which quantum tunneling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-02 Vishwajeet Ohal , Pierre Boulanger

With progress in quantum technology more sophisticated quantum annealing devices are becoming available. While they offer new possibilities for solving optimization problems, their true potential is still an open question. As the optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Bettina Heim , Ethan W. Brown , Dave Wecker , Matthias Troyer

The protocol of quantum annealing is applied to an optimization problem with a one-dimensional continuous degree of freedom, a variant of the problem proposed by Shinomoto and Kabashima. The energy landscape has a number of local minima,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-23 Yang Wei Koh , Hidetoshi Nishimori

Quantum annealing is a promising metaheuristic for solving constrained combinatorial optimization problems. However, parameter tuning difficulties and hardware noise often prevent optimal solutions from being properly encoded as the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Keita Takahashi , Shu Tanaka

With the advent of quantum computers, researchers are exploring if quantum mechanics can be leveraged to solve important problems in ways that may provide advantages not possible with conventional or classical methods. A previous work by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Ajinkya Borle , Samuel J. Lomonaco

Quantum annealing and quantum approximate optimization algorithms hold a great potential to speed-up optimization problems. This could be game-changing for a plethora of applications. Yet, in order to hope to beat classical solvers, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Ilia A. Luchnikov , Egor S. Tiunov , Tobias Haug , Leandro Aolita

Quantum annealing can efficiently obtain solutions to combinatorial optimization problems. Size-reduction methods are used to treat large-scale combinatorial optimization problems that cannot be input directly into a quantum annealer…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-30 Tomohiro Hattori , Hirotaka Irie , Tadashi Kadowaki , Shu Tanaka

Contrary to the assumption that most quantum error-correcting codes (QECC) make, it is expected that phase errors are much more likely than bit errors in physical devices. By employing the entanglement-assisted stabilizer formalism, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-27 Yuichiro Fujiwara , Min-Hsiu Hsieh

Quantum annealing is a generic algorithm using quantum-mechanical fluctuations to search for the solution of an optimization problem. The present paper first reviews the fundamentals of quantum annealing and then reports on preliminary…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2010-06-10 Masayuki Ohzeki , Hidetoshi Nishimori