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Quantum annealing is a promising algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. It searches for the ground state of the Ising model, which corresponds to the optimal solution of a given combinatorial optimization problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-25 Tomohiro Hattori , Shu Tanaka

In the rapidly advancing domain of quantum optimization, the confluence of quantum algorithms such as Quantum Annealing (QA) and the Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) with robust optimization methodologies presents a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Pascal Halffmann , Steve Lenk , Michael Trebing

There has been considerable progress in the design and construction of quantum annealing devices. However, a conclusive detection of quantum speedup over traditional silicon-based machines remains elusive, despite multiple careful studies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-03 Helmut G. Katzgraber , Firas Hamze , Zheng Zhu , Andrew J. Ochoa , H. Munoz-Bauza

There have been multiple attempts to demonstrate that quantum annealing and, in particular, quantum annealing on quantum annealing machines, has the potential to outperform current classical optimization algorithms implemented on CMOS…

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 has emerged as a powerful platform for simulating and optimizing classical and quantum Ising models. Quantum annealers, like other quantum and/or analog computing devices, are susceptible to nonidealities including…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-15 Kevin Chern , Kelly Boothby , Jack Raymond , Pau Farré , Andrew D. King

Critical decision-making issues in science, engineering, and industry are based on combinatorial optimization; however, its application is inherently limited by the NP-hard nature of the problem. A specialized paradigm of analogue quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Rudraksh Sharma , Ravi Katukam , Arjun Nagulapally

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

The quantum approximate optimization algorithm (QAOA) and quantum annealing are two of the most popular quantum optimization heuristics. While QAOA is known to be able to approximate quantum annealing, the approximation requires QAOA angles…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Sami Boulebnane , James Sud , Ruslan Shaydulin , Marco Pistoia

Quantum annealing offers a novel approach to finding the optimal solutions for a variety of computational problems, where the quantum annealing controls influence the observed performance and error mechanisms by tuning the underlying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Erica Grant , Travis Humble , Benjamin Stump

Quantum annealing is a generic name of quantum algorithms to use quantum-mechanical fluctuations to search for the solution of optimization problem. It shares the basic idea with quantum adiabatic evolution studied actively in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Satoshi Morita , Hidetoshi Nishimori

Quantum annealing is a promising technique which leverages quantum mechanics to solve hard optimization problems. Considerable progress has been made in the development of a physical quantum annealer, motivating the study of methods to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-21 Maritza Hernandez , Maliheh Aramon

The performance of open-system quantum annealing is adversely affected by thermal excitations out of the ground state. While the presence of energy gaps between the ground and excited states suppresses such excitations, error correction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-09 Shunji Matsuura , Hidetoshi Nishimori , Walter Vinci , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

Quantum annealing is a novel type of analog computation that aims to use quantum mechanical fluctuations to search for optimal solutions of Ising problems. Quantum annealing in the Transverse Ising model, implemented on D-Wave QPUs, are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-14 Elijah Pelofske

The recent advent of commercially available quantum annealing hardware (QAH) has expanded opportunities for research into quantum annealing-based algorithms. In the domain of power systems, this advancement has driven increased interest in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-26 Rosemary Barrass , Harsha Nagarajan , Carleton Coffrin

To increase efficiency in automotive manufacturing, newly produced vehicles can move autonomously from the production line to the distribution area. This requires an optimal placement of sensors to ensure full coverage while minimizing the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Nico Kraus , Marvin Erdmann , Alexander Kuzmany , Daniel Porawski , Jonas Stein

Quantum computers use quantum resources to carry out computational tasks and may outperform classical computers in solving certain computational problems. Special-purpose quantum computers such as quantum annealers employ quantum adiabatic…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2021-01-19 Xinyu Song , Yazhen Wang , Shang Wu , Donggyu Kim

Here we explore which heuristic quantum algorithms for combinatorial optimization might be most practical to try out on a small fault-tolerant quantum computer. We compile circuits for several variants of quantum accelerated simulated…

We present an analog version of the quantum approximate optimization algorithm suitable for current quantum annealers. The central idea of this algorithm is to optimize the schedule function, which defines the adiabatic evolution. It is…