Performance of quantum annealing for 2-SAT problems with multiple satisfying assignments

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Auteurs principaux: Mehta, Vrinda, De Raedt, Hans, Michielsen, Kristel, Jin, Fengping
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author Mehta, Vrinda
De Raedt, Hans
Michielsen, Kristel
Jin, Fengping
author_facet Mehta, Vrinda
De Raedt, Hans
Michielsen, Kristel
Jin, Fengping
contents Using a specially constructed set of hard 2-SAT problems with four satisfying assignments, we study the scaling and sampling performance of numerical simulation of quantum annealing as well as that of the physical quantum annealers offered by D-Wave. To this end, we use both the standard quantum annealing and reverse annealing protocols in both our simulations and on the D-Wave quantum annealer. In the case of ideal quantum annealing the sampling behavior can be explained by perturbation theory and the scaling behavior of the time to solution depends on the scaling behavior of the minimum energy gap between the ground state and the first excited state of the annealing Hamiltonian. The corresponding results from the D-Wave quantum annealers do not fit to this ideal picture, but suggest that the scaling of the time to solution from the quantum annealers matches those calculated from the equilibrium probability distribution.
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spellingShingle Performance of quantum annealing for 2-SAT problems with multiple satisfying assignments
Mehta, Vrinda
De Raedt, Hans
Michielsen, Kristel
Jin, Fengping
Quantum Physics
Using a specially constructed set of hard 2-SAT problems with four satisfying assignments, we study the scaling and sampling performance of numerical simulation of quantum annealing as well as that of the physical quantum annealers offered by D-Wave. To this end, we use both the standard quantum annealing and reverse annealing protocols in both our simulations and on the D-Wave quantum annealer. In the case of ideal quantum annealing the sampling behavior can be explained by perturbation theory and the scaling behavior of the time to solution depends on the scaling behavior of the minimum energy gap between the ground state and the first excited state of the annealing Hamiltonian. The corresponding results from the D-Wave quantum annealers do not fit to this ideal picture, but suggest that the scaling of the time to solution from the quantum annealers matches those calculated from the equilibrium probability distribution.
title Performance of quantum annealing for 2-SAT problems with multiple satisfying assignments
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.01423