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Over the past decade, the usefulness of quantum annealing hardware for combinatorial optimization has been the subject of much debate. Thus far, experimental benchmarking studies have indicated that quantum annealing hardware does not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Byron Tasseff , Tameem Albash , Zachary Morrell , Marc Vuffray , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Sidhant Misra , Carleton Coffrin

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of classical optimization problems that makes full use of quantum fluctuations. We consider work statistics given by a repetition of quantum annealing processes by employing the Jarzynski equality…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Masayuki Ohzeki , Hidestoshi Nishimori

In this paper, we review some features of quantum annealing and related topics from viewpoints of statistical physics, condensed matter physics, and computational physics. We can obtain a better solution of optimization problems in many…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-23 Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura

We present a comparison study of state-of-the-art classical optimisation methods to a D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer for the planning of Earth observation missions. The problem is to acquire high value images while obeying the attitude…

By analyzing the characteristics of hardware-native Ising Models and their performance on current and next generation quantum annealers, we provide a framework for determining the prospect of advantage utilizing adiabatic evolution compared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-25 Salvatore Certo , Georgios Korpas , Andrew Vlasic , Philip Intallura

Boltzmann machines are the basis of several deep learning methods that have been successfully applied to both supervised and unsupervised machine learning tasks. These models assume that a dataset is generated according to a Boltzmann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Richard Y. Li , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum annealing is a promising paradigm for building practical quantum computers. Compared to other approaches, quantum annealing technology has been scaled up to a larger number of qubits. On the other hand, deep learning has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Michele Sasdelli , Tat-Jun Chin

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

Classical and quantum annealing are two heuristic optimization methods that search for an optimal solution by slowly decreasing thermal or quantum fluctuations. Optimizing annealing schedules is important both for performance and fair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Daniel Herr , Ethan Brown , Bettina Heim , Mario Könz , Guglielmo Mazzola , Matthias Troyer

Quantum annealing is a computational paradigm in which optimisation problems are mapped onto the energy landscape of an interacting quantum system and explored through its dynamical evolution. By continuously transforming a simple initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Steven Abel , Andrei Constantin , Luca A. Nutricati

Quantum annealing method has been widely attracted attention in statistical physics and information science since it is expected to be a powerful method to obtain the best solution of optimization problem as well as simulated annealing. The…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-23 Shu Tanaka , Ryo Tamura

We investigate the use of quantum computing algorithms on real quantum hardware to tackle the computationally intensive task of feature selection for light-weight medical image datasets. Feature selection is often formulated as a k of n…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Merlin A. Nau , Luca A. Nutricati , Bruno Camino , Paul A. Warburton , Andreas K. Maier

Quantum annealing is a heuristic optimization algorithm that exploits quantum evolution to approximately find lowest energy states. Quantum annealers have scaled up in recent years to tackle increasingly larger and more highly connected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Humberto Munoz Bauza , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum computation offers exciting new possibilities for statistics. This paper explores the use of the D-Wave machine, a specialized type of quantum computer, which performs quantum annealing. A general description of quantum annealing…

Computation · Statistics 2019-11-21 Robert C. Foster , Brian Weaver , James Gattiker

Finding the global minimum in a rugged potential landscape is a computationally hard task, often equivalent to relevant optimization problems. Simulated annealing is a computational technique which explores the configuration space by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Tobias Graß , Maciej Lewenstein

Quantum annealing is analogous to simulated annealing with a tunneling mechanism substituting for thermal activation. Its performance has been tested in numerical simulation with mixed conclusions. There is a class of optimization problems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-19 Thomas Jorg , Florent Krzakala , Jorge Kurchan , A. C. Maggs

Quantum annealing targets low-energy solutions of Ising/QUBO problems, but reliable assessment requires more than best-energy comparisons. This dissertation develops a benchmarking framework for D-Wave quantum annealers that combines strong…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Tomasz Śmierzchalski

Quantum annealing leverages the properties of interacting quantum spin systems to solve computational problems, typically optimisation problems. Current hardware now has capabilities that can be used to solve condensed matter physics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Viv Kendon , Nicholas Chancellor

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

The recent emergence of novel computational devices, such as quantum computers, coherent Ising machines, and digital annealers presents new opportunities for hardware-accelerated hybrid optimization algorithms. Unfortunately, demonstrations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-21 Yuchen Pang , Carleton Coffrin , Andrey Y. Lokhov , Marc Vuffray