Improving quantum annealing by engineering the coupling to the environment

A large class of optimisation problems can be mapped to the Ising model where all details are encoded in the coupling of spins. The task of the original mathematical optimisation is then equivalent to finding the ground state of the corresponding spin system which can be achieved via quantum anneali...

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Published inEPJ quantum technology Vol. 10; no. 1; p. 44
Main Authors S. Najafabadi, Mojdeh, Schumayer, Daniel, Lee, Chee-Kong, Jaksch, Dieter, Hutchinson, David A. W.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2023
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Coupling
Eigenvalues
Engineering
Graphs
Ising model
Magnetic fields
Nanotechnology and Microengineering
Optimization
Phase transitions
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Information Technology
Quantum Physics
Spintronics
Fidelity
Quantum annealing
Ising model
Quantum computation
Environmental engineering
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Summary:A large class of optimisation problems can be mapped to the Ising model where all details are encoded in the coupling of spins. The task of the original mathematical optimisation is then equivalent to finding the ground state of the corresponding spin system which can be achieved via quantum annealing relying on the adiabatic theorem. Some of the inherent disadvantages of this procedure can be alleviated or resolved using a stochastic approach, and by coupling to the external environment. We show that careful engineering of the system-bath coupling at an individual spin level can further improve annealing.
ISSN:2662-4400
2196-0763
DOI:10.1140/epjqt/s40507-023-00202-0