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Population annealing Monte Carlo is an efficient sequential algorithm for simulating k-local Boolean Hamiltonians. Because of its structure, the algorithm is inherently parallel and therefore well suited for large-scale simulations of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-11-26 Amin Barzegar , Christopher Pattison , Wenlong Wang , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Combinatorial optimization problems are central to both practical applications and the development of optimization methods. While classical and quantum algorithms have been refined over decades, machine learning--assisted approaches are…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-05-12 Luca Maria Del Bono , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi , Francesco Zamponi

We introduce Simulated Bifurcation Quantum Annealing (SBQA), a quantum-inspired optimization algorithm that extends simulated bifurcation by incorporating inter-replica interactions to mimic quantum tunneling. SBQA retains the efficiency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Jakub Pawłowski , Paweł Tarasiuk , Jan Tuziemski , Łukasz Pawela , Bartłomiej Gardas

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the quantum-enhanced Monte Carlo method [Nature, 619, 282-287 (2023)], aimed at identifying the optimal working point of the algorithm. We observe an optimal mixing Hamiltonian strength and analyze the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Johannes Christmann , Petr Ivashkov , Mattia Chiurco , Guglielmo Mazzola

Quantum annealing (QA) provides us with a way to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In the previous demonstration of the QA, a superconducting flux qubit (FQ) was used. However, the flux qubits in these demonstrations have a short…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Yuichiro Matsuzaki , Hideaki Hakoshima , Yuya Seki , Shiro Kawabata

Quantum annealing offers a promising strategy for solving complex optimization problems by encoding the solution into the ground state of a problem Hamiltonian. While most implementations rely on spin-$1/2$ systems, we explore the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 M. Haider Akbar , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Quantum Tunneling is ubiquitous across different fields, from quantum chemical reactions, and magnetic materials to quantum simulators and quantum computers. While simulating the real-time quantum dynamics of tunneling is infeasible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Guglielmo Mazzola , Vadim N. Smelyanskiy , Matthias Troyer

We present a hybrid classical-quantum computing paradigm where the quantum part strictly runs within the coherence time of a quantum annealer, a method we call variational coherent quantum annealing (VCQA). It involves optimizing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 N. Barraza , G. Alvarado Barrios , I. Montalban , E. Solano , F. Albarrán-Arriagada

We have done simulating of factorization the number 15 on three qutrits, represented by the spins S = 1, by quantum annealing. We assume that strong one-spin interaction allow selectively operate on different transitions between levels of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-05 V. E. Zobov , I. S. Pichkovskiy

Recently, Syljuasen and Sandvik proposed a new framework for constructing algorithms of quantum Monte Carlo simulation. While it includes new classes of powerful algorithms, it is not straightforward to find an efficient algorithm for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenji Harada , Naoki Kawashima

We introduce the transverse Ising model as a prototype for discussing quantum phase transition. Next we introduce Suzuki-Trotter formalism to show the correspondence between $d$-dimensional quantum system with a $(d+1)$-dimensional…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Arnab Das

Quantum computing and quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) are respectively the state-of-the-art quantum and classical computing methods for understanding many-body quantum systems. Here, we propose a hybrid quantum-classical algorithm that integrates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-17 Yukun Zhang , Yifei Huang , Jinzhao Sun , Dingshun Lv , Xiao Yuan

Quantum annealing is a proposed combinatorial optimization technique meant to exploit quantum mechanical effects such as tunneling and entanglement. Real-world quantum annealing-based solvers require a combination of annealing and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-30 Kenneth M. Zick , Omar Shehab , Matthew French

Classical and quantum annealing is discussed for a kinetically constrained chain of $N$ non-interacting asymmetric double wells, represented by Ising spins in a longitudinal field $h$. It is shown that in certain cases, where the kinetic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Robin B. Stinhcombe

Recently, it was demonstrated both theoretically and experimentally on the D-Wave quantum annealer that transverse-field quantum annealing does not find all ground states with equal probability. In particular, it was proposed that more…

We describe a new algorithm for the numerical simulation of quantum spin and boson systems. The method is based on the Trotter decomposition in imaginary time and a decoupling by auxiliary Ising spins. It can be applied, in principle, to…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Ulmke , R. T. Scalettar

Here we first discuss briefly the quantum annealing technique. We then study the quantum annealing of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model with the tuning of both transverse and longitudinal fields. Both the fields are time-dependent…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-17 A Rajak , B K Chakrabarti

Quantum Annealing (QA) uses quantum fluctuations to search for a global minimum of an optimization-type problem faster than classical computers. To meet the demand for future internet traffic and mitigate the spectrum scarcity, this work…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Eldar Gabdulsattarov , Khaled Rabie , Xingwang Li , Galymzhan Nauryzbayev

Quantum Annealing (QA) is one of the most promising frameworks for quantum optimization. Here, we focus on the problem of minimizing complex classical cost functions associated with prototypical discrete neural networks, specifically the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Guglielmo Lami , Pietro Torta , Giuseppe E. Santoro , Mario Collura

Nonstoquastic Hamiltonians are hard to simulate due to the sign problem in quantum Monte Carlo simulation. It is however unclear whether nonstoquasticity can lead to advantage in quantum annealing. Here we show that YY-interaction between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Eleni Marina Lykiardopoulou , Alex Zucca , Sam A. Scivier , Mohammad H. Amin