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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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Krzysztof Giergiel , Y. Sam Yang , Anthony B. Murphy

Quantum annealing has great promise in leveraging quantum mechanics to solve combinatorial optimisation problems. However, to realize this promise to it's fullest extent we must appropriately leverage the underlying physics. In this spirit,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-10 Nicholas Chancellor

Quantum annealing devices have been subject to various analyses in order to classify their usefulness for practical applications. While it has been successfully proven that such systems can in general be used for solving combinatorial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Michael Streif , Florian Neukart , Martin Leib

The possibility of using quantum computers for electronic structure calculations has opened up a promising avenue for computational chemistry. Towards this direction, numerous algorithmic advances have been made in the last five years. The…

Mixed-integer linear programming problems are extensively used in industry for a wide range of optimization tasks. However, as they get larger, they present computational challenges for classical solvers within practical time limits.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sergio López-Baños , Elisabeth Lobe , Ontje Lünsdorf , Oriol Raventós

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 getting increasing attention in combinatorial optimization. The quantum processing unit by D-Wave is constructed to approximately solve Ising models on so-called Chimera graphs. Ising models are equivalent to quadratic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Michael Juenger , Elisabeth Lobe , Petra Mutzel , Gerhard Reinelt , Franz Rendl , Giovanni Rinaldi , Tobias Stollenwerk

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

Quantum annealing algorithms belong to the class of metaheuristic tools, applicable for solving binary optimization problems. Hardware implementations of quantum annealing, such as the quantum annealing machines produced by D-Wave Systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-18 Florian Neukart , David Von Dollen , Christian Seidel , Gabriele Compostella

Differential equations are ubiquitous in models of physical phenomena. Applications like steady-state analysis of heat flow and deflection in elastic bars often admit to a second order differential equation. In this paper, we discuss the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Siddhartha Srivastava , Veera Sundararaghavan

We propose a framework to solve non-linear and history-dependent mechanical problems based on a hybrid classical computer -- quantum annealer approach. Quantum Computers are anticipated to solve particular operations exponentially faster.…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Van-Dung Nguyen , Ling Wu , Françoise Remacle , Ludovic Noels

Quantum annealers (QA), such as D-Wave systems, become increasingly efficient and competitive at solving combinatorial optimization problems. However, solving problems that do not directly map the chip topology remains challenging for this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-30 Valentin Gilbert , Stéphane Louise

Quantum annealers can be used to solve many (possibly NP-hard) combinatorial optimization problems, by formulating them as quadratic unconstrained binary optimization (QUBO) problems or, equivalently, using the Ising formulation. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Alessandro Gherardi , Alberto Leporati

Quantum annealing may provide advantages over simulated annealing on solving some problems such as Kth order binary optimization problem. No feasible architecture exists to implement the high-order optimization problem (K > 2) on current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Yong-Chao Tang , Guo-Xing Miao

Recent advancements in quantum computing suggest the potential to revolutionize computational algorithms across various scientific domains including oceanography and atmospheric science. The field is still relatively young and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Takuro Matsuta , Ryo Furue

Recent advances in quantum technology have led to the development and manufacturing of experimental programmable quantum annealers that promise to solve certain combinatorial optimization problems of practical relevance faster than their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Itay Hen , Federico M. Spedalieri

The Fermi-Hubbard model (FHM) on a two dimensional square lattice has long been an important testbed and target for simulating fermionic Hamiltonians on quantum hardware. We present an alternative for quantum simulation of FHMs based on an…

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

The performance of a D-Wave Vesuvius quantum annealer was recently compared to a suite of classical algorithms on a class of constraint satisfaction instances based on frustrated loops. However, the construction of these instances leads the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Andrew D. King , Trevor Lanting , Richard Harris

Solving the wave equation is one of the most (if not the most) fundamental problems we face as we try to illuminate the Earth using recorded seismic data. The Helmholtz equation provides wavefield solutions that are dimensionally reduced,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-06-04 Tariq Alkhalifah , Chao Song , Umair bin Waheed , Qi Hao