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We show that a general purpose clusterization algorithm, Deterministic Annealing, can be adapted to the problem of jet identification in particle production by high energy collisions. In particular we consider the problem of jet searching…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Angelini , G. Nardulli , L. Nitti , M. Pellicoro , D. Perrino , S. Stramaglia

We perform a comparison of two jet clusterization algorithms. The first one is the standard Durham algorithm and the second one is a global optimization scheme, Deterministic Annealing, often used in clusterization problems, and adapted to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Angelini , P. De Felice , M. Maggi , G. Nardulli , L. Nitti , M. Pellicoro , S. Stramaglia

We review here the recent success in quantum annealing, i.e., optimization of the cost or energy functions of complex systems utilizing quantum fluctuations. The concept is introduced in successive steps through the studies of mapping of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 Arnab Das , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

With the advent of exascale computing, effective load balancing in massively parallel software applications is critically important for leveraging the full potential of high performance computing systems. Load balancing is the distribution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-30 Omer Rathore , Alastair Basden , Nicholas Chancellor , Halim Kusumaatmaja

Experimental High-Energy Physics (HEP), especially the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) programme at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is one of the most computationally intensive activities in the world. This demand is set…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2021-01-15 Diogo Pires , Pedrame Bargassa , João Seixas , Yasser Omar

Quantum annealing has shown significant potential as an approach to near-term quantum computing. Despite promising progress towards obtaining a quantum speedup, quantum annealers are limited by the need to embed problem instances within the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua

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

In recent years, quantum computing has drawn significant interest within the field of high-energy physics. We explore the potential of quantum algorithms to resolve the combinatorial problems in particle physics experiments. As a concrete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-12 Jacob L. Scott , Zhongtian Dong , Taejoon Kim , Kyoungchul Kong , Myeonghun Park

Quantum annealing (QA) has the potential to significantly improve solution quality and reduce time complexity in solving combinatorial optimization problems compared to classical optimization methods. However, due to the limited number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Seongmin Kim , Sang-Woo Ahn , In-Saeng Suh , Alexander W. Dowling , Eungkyu Lee , Tengfei Luo

Analog quantum computation offers a route to machine learning using controllable physical dynamics as a computational resource. However, many existing approaches rely on task-specific protocols or observables that are difficult to access…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Shmuel Lorber , Yonatan Dubi

Despite rapid recent progress towards the development of quantum computers capable of providing computational advantages over classical computers, it seems likely that such computers will, initially at least, be required to run in a hybrid…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Alastair A. Abbott , Cristian S. Calude , Michael J. Dinneen , Richard Hua

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

This paper summarizes a quantum algorithm of [R.D. Somma, et.al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 130504 (2008)] that simulates a classical annealing process for solving discrete optimization problems. The complexity of the quantum algorithm scales…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Sergio Boixo , Rolando D. Somma

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

Quantum annealing is a heuristic quantum optimization algorithm that can be used to solve combinatorial optimization problems. In recent years, advances in quantum technologies have enabled the development of small- and intermediate-scale…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Sheir Yarkoni , Elena Raponi , Thomas Bäck , Sebastian Schmitt

We introduce Qlustering, a quantum-inspired algorithm for unsupervised learning that leverages network-based quantum transport to perform data clustering. In contrast to traditional distance-based methods, Qlustering treats the steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Shmuel Lorber , Yonatan Dubi

I propose a "quantum annealing" heuristic for the problem of combinatorial search among a frustrated set of states characterized by a cost function to be minimized. The algorithm is probabilistic, with postselection of the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Carlo A. Trugenberger

Clustering is grouping of data by the proximity of some properties. We report on the possibility of increasing the efficiency of clustering of points in a plane using artificial quantum neural networks after the replacement of the two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 V. E. Zobov , I. S. Pichkovskiy

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

We present an algorithm for quantum-assisted cluster analysis (QACA) that makes use of the topological properties of a D-Wave 2000Q quantum processing unit (QPU). Clustering is a form of unsupervised machine learning, where instances are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Florian Neukart , David Von Dollen , Christian Seidel