arXiv · 1911.08116
Performance enhancement of quantum annealing under the Lechner-Hauke-Zoller scheme by non-linear driving of the constraint term
Abstract
We analyze the performance of quantum annealing as formulated by Lechner, Hauke, and Zoller (LHZ), by which a Hamiltonian with all-to-all two-body interactions is reduced to a corresponding Hamiltonian with local many-body interactions. Mean-field analyses show that problematic first-order quantum phase transitions that exist in the original LHZ formulation can be avoided, and thus an exponential speedup is achieved, if we drive the coefficient of the many-body term, which represents the constraint, non-linearly as a function of time. This result applies not only to a simple ferromagnetic model but also to the spin glass problem if a parameter in the spin glass model is chosen appropriately.
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Yuki Susa, Hidetoshi Nishimori. 2019-11-19. Performance enhancement of quantum annealing under the Lechner-Hauke-Zoller scheme by non-linear driving of the constraint term. https://doi.org/10.7566/jpsj.89.044006
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